Grimsby - Old Boys of St James Choir School

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Reference WMO/251142

Address:

Grimsby Minster

Grimsby

DN31 1EP

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Screen
Materials:
  • Timber Oak
Lettering: Painted
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: St James School Memorial 1914- 1918 & 1939 – 1945 Location The St James School was founded in 1880 to provide choristers for the choir of St James Church. It is the only one of its type in that it provides a choir for a Parish Church, rather than a cathedral. The school is situated at 22, Bargate, Grimsby. The memorial consists of two oak screens each measuring 2510mm x 2260mm, separated by a stone pillar. Each oak screen is divided into two separate screens, each 1020mm and 710mm in width, leaving a gap of 780mm which provides and entrance into the chapel. Originally, the oak screen contained doors, giving access to the War Memorial Chapel when it was built in 1921. These “doors”, are still within the present structure and are the two narrow sections of the screen, whilst the wider sections, formed the screen proper. The tracery of the screen suggests the nets and anchors of Grimsby’s staple trade. The oak screen was placed here across the entrance to the War Memorial chapel in 1996, after the renovations to the chapel occurred as described above. This was the ambulatory of the original chapel. The photograph shows the screen with the Soldier/Saints window above, the altar to the right and 10th Lincoln tablet and Bermuda Volunteer Rifles Corps Memorial to the left. The screen was gift of the Old Choir School Boys, in memory of their colleagues, former members of the school, who had been killed in World War 1. It was dedicated at the opening of the chapel on 30th June, 1921, by the Lord Bishop of Lincoln. Following the Second World War, the names were added, of former pupils who had been killed in this war. These names were dedicated at 7-30pm, on Wednesday 21st November, 1951 by the vicar E.L. Marsden. The First World War names are on the wider sections, whilst the Second World names are on the narrow sections. So there are four panels in a screen: 1. The Left Hand Wider Screen 2. The Right Hand Wider Screen 3. The Left Hand Narrow Screen 4. The Right Hand Narrow Screen The IWM Register coiunts this as two separate memorials, 51965 and 51966, but they seem to form a coherent whole with the windows above which were renovated as part of the WW2 memorial.
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To the Glory of God and in memory of the old boys of St James Choir school who fell in the Great War. Their fellows give this screen A.D. 1921 Requiescant In Pace 1939 – 1945 These door panels contain the names of those past members of St. James Choir School who died for their country in the war of 1939-1945. In their honoured memory their old school fellows have renovated the south windows of this Chapel of Resurrection which were damaged in the air raid of July 13, 1943.

The Left Hand Wider Screen 1915 Pte AC Gibson Spr AL Hewitt(Sapper) Cpl P Naylor Tpr H Pickersgill Pte W Rushton To the Glory of God and in memory of the old boys of St James Choir school who fell in the Great War. Their fellows give this screen A.D. 1921 Requiescant In Pace 1915 Pte AC Gibson Spr AL Hewitt(Sapper) Cpl P Naylor Tpr H Pickersgill Pte W Rushton 1916 Sgt H Bolton Pte B M Chapman Pte H Dornan 2nd Lieut. M W Emerson Cpl P L Embs MM Sgt H Ellis Pte J H Fryman Pte T J Gale Pte J Halliday Pte G Morton 2nd Lieut E W Morford Pte G Morford Pte M T Pearson Pte H Robinson 2nd Lieut S Shankster Lieut G Shankster Pte S J Watts The Right Hand Wider Screen 1917 Pte S J W Brown Pte H M Barber Pte C A Belben Pte H T Chapman Tpr M H Campion Eng Lieut Smoorhouse 2nd Lieut F L Wood Lieut W B Wood MC and Bar 1918 Lieut A Chapman Pte T W Collingwood Pte L Ely Bdr A D Ellis Pte C W Ellis 2nd Lieut W M Goodrich Pte E Rowland Gun G W Sanderson Tpr H Smith Pte F Schofield Lieut F C Tilbrook 1919 Lieut I Gorbutt Capt C Osborne The Left Hand Narrow Screen 1939 – 1945 These door panels contain the names of those past members of St. James Choir School who died for their country in the war of 1939-1945. In their honoured memory their old school fellows have renovated the south windows of this Chapel of Resurrection which were damaged in the air raid of July 13, 1943. 1939-1945 J. Beeson M. Brett C. Browne W. A. Browne C. Butterfield B. Derwick G. Douglas M.A. Genney T. Genney H.A. Neal The Right Hand Narrow Screen MERCY 1939 – 1945 A. Gilbey C.G. Goodwin A. Hamilton A.G. Harrison E.D. Harrison B. Hemmingway A.R. Kivell 1939 – 1945 R. Lockwood E.A.G. Rands R. Rowley J. Sills L. Stewart G. Sanders F.H. Smith D. Walmsley R. Walmsley J. Wray

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