Victoria Street Congregational Church


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Reference WMO/250028

Address:

Central United Reformed Church

Becket Well Lane/Victoria Street

Derby

DE1 1JW

England

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Other
Lettering: Unknown
About the memorial: A composite memorial comprising tablets, a plaque and a book of remembrance built into an alabaster frame constructed around two windows. The memorial is presumed to have been formed around two windows of the original church but has been re-erected on a blank internal wall of the new church with artificial lighting provided behind the relocated glass. The main frame is of panels of brown mottled alabaster forming a plane vertical face with facings to the shallow arched window opening soffits and reveals and with moulded rails forming a stepped top and sides. A green mottled marble cill extends across the centre below which a shallow bow section extends at the centre. The two windows each have two lights of stained glass depicting, from left to right, figures of Wycliffe, Milton, Bunyan and Cromwell and at the heads are the heraldic shields of Oxford University, Christ's College Cambridge, Bedford and Sidney College Cambridge respectively. Each window is set into a wooden frame reproducing the lancet shape and ogee heads of the original lights. At the two ends of the frame are white marble tablets of figures in classical robes in relief. The left tablet is of a woman perhaps representing Peace. She has a headband of laurel leaves and is holding a laurel branch in her right hand while holding up her left hand, palm outwards and standing by a lily plant. The subject of the right tablet is a woman shielding a child. At the centre a third white marble tablet bears the inscription and names. At its head is a mosaic motif comprising a plain Latin cross in pale gold tesserae within an oval cartouche of dark brown tesserae. The cavo-relievo inscription and names are in upright capital decorative lettering with the letters picked out in black. Below the inscription, and above the cill, is a recess containing the book of remembrance and enclosed by a pair of metal doors with a perforated design of fleurs-de-lis within curved frames. The book has a leather cover with tooled borders, an embossed title in gilded sentence case Gothic lettering, metal clasps and a ring for attachment. The vellum pages have inscriptions in black Gothic calligraphy with selected rubricated initials and the introductory page is finely decorated and illuminated. The biography pages generally have three people on each page giving such details as could be compiled for the fallen and for those who served and returned, written in black and red calligraphy in different cases of Gothic lettering. At the centre, below the cill on the bow front, is a curved oblong bronze plaque with the WW2 inscription in upright capital Roman lettering in relief within recessed strips coloured black.
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Central tablet: FIDE ET AMORE/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN MEMORY OF THOSE/ OF THIS CHURCH/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918/ (Names) Frame: THE BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE Book cover: Book of/ Remembrance Book title page: Book of/ Remembrance Book introduction page: This BOOK of/ REMEMBRANCE/ is part of the Memorial dedicated by the Members/ and Congregation of this Church to the honour of/ seventeen of their number who fell in the Great War,/ 1914-1918./ They were peaceful folk following peaceful/ callings, who, counting Right and Freedom/ dearer than Peace, went forth to a conflict that was/ abhorrent to them. They died, leaving an unfading memory/ of self-sacrifice and of duty nobly done./ By this Memorial the Church desires to perpetuate/ their heroism in the hearts of those for whose/ safety and freedom they gave themselves, and to give/ thanks to God for the assurance that the dear relation-/ ships thus broken are renewed in His presence./ This Book also contains the Names and Records/ as far as they are available of all others who/ served in any branch of the Forces, many of whom, though/ their lives were spared, suffered wounds and sickness/ and all the indescribable hardship of War. Plaque: ALSO OF THOSE WHO MADE/ THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN/ THE WORLD WAR 1939-1945/ (Names)

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