St John's Church

Workington St John - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 21 Jul 2012

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The temporary cenotaph used each remembrance day, in storage - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 17 Sep 2022

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Overall View of the North side of the west wall - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 17 Sep 2022

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Sample plaque - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 17 Sep 2022

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Overall View of the south return wall - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 17 Sep 2022

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Overall View of the north return wall - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 17 Sep 2022

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Overall View of the south side of the west wall - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 17 Sep 2022

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The front and one side face of the temporary Remembrance Day Cenotaph - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 13 Nov 2022

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The other side face of the temporary Cenotaph - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 13 Nov 2022

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The reverse face of the Temporary Cenotaph - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 13 Nov 2022

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The location of the temporary Cenotaph, at the front of the ecclesiastical south/ compass North aisle - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 13 Nov 2022

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The Completed Cenotaph on Remembrance Day with the individual crosses- one for each man of the Parish lost in the two wars - Taken by Valerie Hallard- Churchwarden 14 Nov 2022

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Reference WMO/170710

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St John's Church

Washington Street

Workington

CA14 3AX

England

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Status: On original site

Type: Non freestanding

Location: Internal

Setting: Inside a building - public/private

Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet

Materials:

Metal Bronze

Lettering: Raised

Conflicts:

First World War (1914-1918)

About the memorial: (See special comment about access). There are a series of 51 individual bronze medallions on the oak panelling [so called 'death pennies'], one for each casualty at the west end of Church, behind the entrance doors from the porch. There is an accompanying book, written by a local lady-Janet Mary Thompson in November 1998 which lists the names and gives biographical detail on each. Intending visitors may have to ask for the book (as it is not routinely left out), as far as I know there was only the one copy published. However on Remembrance Day each year and in the book 56 names are commemorated. The Church believes that 5 families declined to donate their 'death pennies' to the Church for this memorial. They are arranged on each side of the entrance doors in 3 columns of 7 plaques on each side, plus on the north wall return 3 on the top row, and one below, and on the south return wall 3 on the top row, then 2 single centred plaques below. The five men who are commemorated but do not have plaques are- James Bryden, William Mandall Hodgson, George Humes, Alfred Rickerby and Joseph A C Stuart. For Remembrance Sunday a home made memorial (without names) of bricks and a sand pit is brought out, to place little remembrance crosses in (this was the Scheme and the parts to do that remain in storage)- the November 2022 images show that this has now been subtly amended. This is done in the context of a procession and the reading out of each name. The image of the completed temporary Cenotaph shows that the dead of WW2 are also commemorated at the Remembrance Day service although there is no fixed memorial to them in the Church.

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Inscription:

He died for freedom and honour (name)-/[There are 51 individual and identical memorials].

Names:

In order of the plaques- West Wall, North Side- Column 1- Oliver Campbell/ Frederick James Smith/ Alfred Humes/ Joseph Alfred Penrice/ James Plaskett/ John Thornburrow/ William Lumsden Briggs; Column 2- Frank Bateman/ James Davidson/ Arthur Holman Mitchell/ William Gill/ George Rutherford/ John Cannon/ Joseph William Brown; Column 3- Rowland Leslie Hinchcliffe/ George Linton/ Allan Pearson Lumsden/ James Rowntree Kennedy/ John Branthwaite/ Edwin James Pursglove/ William Stephenson; North Side, return wall- Top Row-John Hewitt, Sydney Tyson, Percy Williams; Row 2-Alfred Thompson West Wall, South Side- Column 1- John Stuart/ Tom Clements/ Robert Elliot/ John Tiffin Lennox/ Herbert Bryden/ Thomas Moore/ Frederick Credie; Column 2- George Coles/ Lowery Tunstall/ Joseph Nicholson/ Mark Watson/ John Bouch/ John Holliday Benson/ Stanley Watson; Column 3- Irving Stanley Smith/ Manuel Weston/ John Greggains/ James Harvey/ Allan Plaskett/ Stanley Bacon/ Colin Winder Warwick; South Side Return Wall- Top Row-Robert Johnstone, Daniel O'Neill, William Wade; Row 2-George Rowlands; Row 3-Henry Lightfoot; In Alphabetical order in the book and as commemorated- STANLEY BACON/FRANK BATEMAN/JOHN HOLLIDAY BENSON/JOHN BOUCH/JOHN BRANTHWAITE/WILLIAM LONSDALE BRIGGS/JOSEPH WILLIAM BROWN/HERBERT BRYDEN/JAMES BRYDEN/OLIVER CANFIELD/JOHN CANNON/TOM CLEMENTS/GEORGE COLES/FREDERICK CREDIE/JAMES DAVIDSON/ROBERT ELLIOTT/JOHN GREGGAINS/WILLIAM GILL/JAMES HARVEY/ROWLAND LESLIE HINCHCLIFFE/WILLIAM MANDALL HODGSON/JOHN HEWITT/ALFRED HUMES/GEORGE HUMES/ROBERT JOHNSTONE/JAMES ROWNTREE KENNEDY/JOHN TIFFIN LENNOX/HENRY LIGHTFOOT/GEORGE LINTON/ALAN PEARSON LUMSDEN/ARTHUR HOLMAN MITCHELL/THOMAS MOORE/JOSEPH NICHOLSON/DANIEL O’NEILL/JOSEPH ALFRED PENRICE/ALLEN HODGSON PLASKETT/JAMES PLASKETT/EDWIN JAMES PURSGLOVE/ALFRED RICKERBY/GEORGE ROWLAND/GEORGE RUTHERFORD/IRVING STANLEY SMITH/FREDERICK JAMES SMITH/WILLIAM STEPHENSON/JOHN STUART/JOSEPH A.C. STUART/ALFRED THOMPSON/JOHN THORNBURROW/LOWERY TUNSTALL/SYDNEY TYSON/WILLIAM WADE/COLIN WINDER WARWICK/MARK WATSON/STANLEY WATSON/MANUEL WESTON/PERCY WILLIAMS

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