World War I Memorial Porch - Church Lawton, Stoke- on- Trent, Staffordshire.
N 53° 05.919 W 002° 16.072
30U E 549021 N 5883495
The World War I Memorial porch is located at All Saints Church on Church Lane, off Liverpool Road West in Church Lawton.
Waymark Code: WMWD1W
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/16/2017
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All Saints Church is a Grade 11 listed building the oldest part dating back to 1180. (
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The porch was built in 1926 as a First World War memorial. It is built of stone with a pitched stone roof. The inscribed stone tablet is lancet shaped with a circular laurel wreath at the top centre, and is located on the right hand wall as you enter the porch.
The inscription on the tablet reads as follows;
'1914 PRO PATRIA 1918
THIS PORCH WAS ERECTED TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH
WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR'
ARTHUR ALCOCK, HARRY JENKINSON, HARRY ROBINSON
CHARLES BAILEY, JAMES MOTTRAM, THOMAS SMITH
DONALD BOOTH, ERNEST OLLERHEAD, ERNEST WILKINSON
JAMES BURGESS, WILFRED PLANT, ALFRED YORKE
LEONARD CRIMES, GEORGE PEARCE, HARRY JENKINSON
HAROLD HOLDCROFT, BERT RAWLINSON, THOMAS RIGBY
The memorial stone is located on the left side as you enter the porch and is inscribed as follows;
'THIS MEMORIAL STONE
WAS LAID BY
MRS ALEXANDER BAILEY
MARCH 6TH 1926'