CHRIST CHURCH PARISHIONERS WW1

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Reference WMO/171070

Address:

Christ Church

Bessborough Road

Oxton

Prenton

CH43 5SF

England

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In 2018, WMT gave a grant towards this war memorial. As it has been a number of years since the grant was given, we would like an up-to-date condition survey and photographs to be added to this war memorial record. Can you help?

Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Attached to a building/structure
Description: Other church fitting
Materials:
  • Timber Timber (any)
Lettering: Painted
About the memorial: An elaborate and large wooden wall mounted structure with carved and coloured figures of the four patron saints of the United Kingdom in alcoves separated by columns.Above them is an intrically carved borders and tops to the four parts of the structure. Below them are plaques containg the WW1 names and below them the dedication. All parts of the memorial are embellished in a golden colour.
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In memory of the men of Christ Church Claughton who laid down their lives in the Great War 1914-18. Thanks be to God who giveth us the victory.

Samuel Acton, William Atkinson, Robert Baird, Harry Barlow, Herbert Barnett, J. Gordon Bean, James W. Beattie, Norman Bell, Frank Bunnell, Arthur Calvert, Percy C. Christian, John Cottam, Reginald A. Cotterell, Harold Crosby, T. Stanley Davies, Thomas Ernest Dobson, Charles Dunning, Harry Dutton, Robert Edwards, Percy Ellwood, John Thomas Evans, A. Rowland Eynott, Charles H. Fairlclough, Edward George, Harold W. Green, William Groom, William Holt, Albert Hughes, David Hughes, Douglas M. Hutchins, Bertram Jones, William Henry Jones, Walter Leadbetter, Charles A. Lewis, Leonard Malley, Robin Morland, George Ernest Oliver, John L. Y. Ottley, Donald Peers, Thomas Penney, W. Roy Pickthall, Walter Croker Poole, William C. Poole, Alexander S. Robinson, Thomas Seagrave, Ralph Seward, Ronald Simpson, John Smethurst, Frank Smith, Walter Smith, William Starkey, John Alex Threlfall, Charles Todd, John Topham, John Edgelow Wace, Frank Wilson, Frank Wolstenholme, George Wolstenholme, Thomas Youds, James Boote

Fixtures and Fittings

1217877

Oxton Village Conservation Area

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Christ Church Birkenhead Parochial Church Council