Memorial to the ringers of St.Andrews, St.Andrew's Church, Church Street, Rugby, Warwickshire.
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N 52° 22.366 W 001° 15.670
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A slate plaque in the ringing chamber of St.Andrew's Church.
Waymark Code: WMDTPD
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/23/2012
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From the information on this plaque it would appear that only one of the ringers who went to war was kiiled in action, the others named all served in the Great War and survived.
The plaque is mounted on the north wall of the ringing chamber in the 'new' tower of St.Andrew's alongside other plaques commemorating peals rung on the bells.
The inscription is:
St.Andrews Society.
ROLL OF HONOUR
THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1919
KILLED IN ACTION JAN 20th1916
Robert.W.Jesson.D.C.M..R.F.A.
Served
Leslie Bramall R.W.R.
Joseph A.Fenton R.F.A.
Alfred G.Grant R.B.
Alfred J.Hessian R.W.R.
Charles E.Joynes K.R.R.
Walter Malins W.R.
Samuel Stratford R.E.
George Watson R.F.A.
Charles W.Wheeler R.A.S.C.
Frank E.Wheeler R.A.O.C.
"Lest we Forget."
The plaque can be viewed on ringing practice nights, Monday, details of which and contacts can be found in the church porch. The ringing chamber is reached up a spiral staircase at the eastern base of the tower.
The church of St.Andrew is an C19th Anglican parish church retaining a significant proportion of C14th fabric, the majority of the church dating from 1877, by William Butterfield (who also built some of the new buildings of Rugby School), and additions of 1895/6 by Ewan Christian to Butterfield's design. The north-east tower and spire have high quality polychrome work, using a variety of elements and materials, and a decorative fishscale slate roof.
There is a fine ring of eight bells in this tower with tenor of 1260kg in the scale of D, dated 1896 and cast by Mears & Stainbank of Whitechapel. There is also a ring of 5 bells, 484kg tenor in A, in the west tower, making this the only church in the world with two rings of bells.