Soresby Street Congregational Church WW1


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Reference WMO/291541

Address:

Rose Hill United Reformed Church

Soresby Street

Chesterfield

S40 1JN

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Attached to a building/structure
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Metal Brass
  • Stone Slate
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: A wall-mounted nowy-headed brass plaque on a slate backboard. At the head is an incised Latin cross, coloured red, and the plaque has a narrow single line black border. The incised inscription is in upright capital decorative lettering and the names, arranged in three columns, are in upright capital block lettering, all coloured black. The maker's details are incised in the centre of the lower margin. The dark slate backboard repeats the shape of the plaque. The church was renamed the Rose Hill United Reformed Church, following the merger of the Presbyterian Church of England and the Congregational Church in England and Wales, and locally merger with the Brampton Congregational Church (whose memorials are now here-WMO/291277 and 291279).
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TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND/ IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF OUR COMRADES/ OF THE SORESBY STREET CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH,/ WHO SERVED THEIR COUNTRY/ DURING THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918./ AND ALSO IN TENDER MEMORY OF OUR MEN/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES./[names in 3 columns]/ "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY/ DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS." JOHN XV.13./ J. WHITELEY, WORCESTER.

E. AYCLIFFE. H. HOLMES. A. D. SWALE./ O. BYARD. H. JEPHSON. H. TURNER./ W. ELLIOTT. M. LEGGE. H. WHEATLEY./ W. HIGGINBOTTOM. S. STEAD. J. M. WHITE.

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