WWI Memorial Screen, St.Augustine's Church, Alston, Cumbria. - World War I Memorials and Monuments on Waymarking.com

This screen has been placed at the entrance to the chancel in the place where the rood screen would have been erected in medieval church. It commemorates the fallen of the Parish and was erected in 1920, the 50th. Jubilee anniversary year of the church.

It is of five and two half bays width with the main entrance at the centre. There are two panels carrying the names at the extreme right and left at the base of the half bays, inscribed and coloured darker than the panels. The names are not in alphabetic order. There are six small coloured crests at the top of the screen which also incorporates several other small crests together with acanthus leaves.

The main inscription runs along the top of the screen in gold lettering on a red ground and is:

To the Glory of God and in memory of all from this Parish
who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-1918 this Chancel Screen
was erected in the Jubilee year of this Church 1920

The names on the left panel are:

              Nowell Oxland
             William J.Little
             John R.Granston
             Joseph M.Dowson
               Henry Abbott
              James Bennett
            James D.Nicholson
            Stephen Dickinson
             Harold E.Walton
             Lloyd M.Thompson
              Walter Davidson
          William F.Featherstone
             Dacre Dickinson
            Herbert J.Jackson
              Walton Shield
             Frank Millican
              Ernest Wymes
             John A.Havelock

The right-hand panel carries the names:

                John Robson
             Joseph Collinson
              Andrew Douglas
             William Turnbull
              Thomas E.Spark
               Thomas Archer
               Thomas Ramsay
              Harry J.Vipond
               John Douglas
             Errington Beadle
             Albert E.Alderson
              William C.Brown
              Robert Atkinson
               Thomas Moore
             Herbert Rutherford
              Thomas Henderson
                Walter Ralph
               Alice Renwick

Date the Monument or Memorial was built or dedicated: 01/01/1920 Private or Public Monument?: Private Name of the Private Organization or Government Entity that built this Monument: St.Augustine's Parochial Church Council Geographic Region where the Monument is located: Europe Physical Address of Monument: St.Augustine's Church off Front Street Alston, Cumbria UK CA9 3HU Rate this waymark: Photo or photos will be uploaded.: yes Website for this Monument: Not listed

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