Horsley Church WW1


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Reference WMO/293536

Address:

St Clement's Church

Church Street

Horsley

DE21 5BR

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Composite
Materials:
  • Metal Bronze
  • Timber Oak
Lettering: Raised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: A rood screen with an accompanying plaque. The oaken screen occupies the full width of the chancel arch up to the height of the arch springings. It has a flat top but does not bear a rood or other feature. The screen has a broad central arch providing access to the chancel and has three bays to each side which are panelled to dado height and open above. The styles and muntins are of moulded section and the panels have blind tracery at the head with a frieze at the top bearing a repeated curvilinear motif. The head of each bay contains delicate panel tracery with rosettes on the cusps, and the spandrels of the central arch have blind carvings of flowing foliage, with rosettes in the intrados. The head of the complete screen comprises a deep cornice with concave mouldings below and an intricate carved frieze above depicting vines, bunches of grapes, buds, tendrils and other foliage. Above the cornice is a low rail with delicate pierced carvings of alternating rosettes and acanthus leaves above and cusps below. To the south of the chancel arch is a wall-mounted oblong bronze plaque with a narrow moulded border and an applied inscription and name list in different styles of gilded lettering, with the maker's name at the bottom right corner.
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TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ THIS OAK SCREEN AND BRONZE TABLET WERE ERECTED/ BY THE PARISHIONERS OF HORSLEY AS A THANK OFFERING/ TO ALMIGHTY GOD FOR VICTORY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919/ AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING/ WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY/[names]/R.I.P. / S Rhys Williams M.A. Vicar/ G Hanson Sale ) Church -/ T Whilton Brown ) Wardens/ John Morris   )  

PTE C CROOKS Royal Lancers/ Q M SERGT E FAKE South Staffs./ CORP H GAUNT 2nd East Yorks./ PTE M GREGORY Notts & Derbys./ PTE J E HARRISON Machine Gun Corps/ DRIVER P HAWTHORNE R.F.A./ PTE J JACKSON Notts & Derbys./ PTE A MEACHAM K.R.R./ SAPPER V PEACOCK R.F./ PTE G H RHODES Australian Field Arty./ PTE A V TAYLOR 6th Leicesters/ SERGT MAJOR G E TURNER West Yorks.

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