Kentisbeare

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Reference WMO/297970

Address:

St Mary's Church

Priest Hill

Kentisbeare

EX15 2BG

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Stone Marble
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Composite memorial comprising an apex-headed, moulded pediment supported by fluted pilasters, two moulded shelves and two corbel stones, mutually enclosing two vertically aligned white marble tablets. The whole is attached to a wall mounted, portrait orientated, apex-headed black marble backboard. The uppermost tablet is dedicated to the Great War and the lower extension tablet for WW2. Incised inscriptions and names on both tablets are infilled with black paint. The fluting on the pilasters and letters " IHS " on the upper tablet are enhanced in gilt. The pedimented tympanum area bears artifacts in relief. A centralised wreath is flanked by the Union flag and St. George flag, with a versed scroll banner below. The wreath encloses the entwined letters " IHS " in gilt.
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Tympanum : IHS / FOR KING AND COUNTRY Main tablet : I.H.S / IN EVER GRATEFUL MEMORY OF / ABOUT 200 MEN OF THE UNITED / PARISH OF KENTISBEARE, WHO / SERVE FOR US AND IN THE CAUSE / OF GOD, THE GREAT WAR / MCMXIV - XIX. / KILLED IN ACTION / (2 NAMES) / DIED / (AND BURIED HARD BY) / (5 NAMES) / "JESUS SAID, GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN / THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS / LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS. / YE ARE MY FRIEND, IF YE DO / WHATSOEVER I COMMAND YOU." S. JOHN XV 13 - 14 Extension tablet : AND OF THE FOLLOWING WHO GAVE / THEIR LIVES IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR / 1939 - 1945 / KILLED IN ACTION / (3 NAMES) / DIED ON ACTIVE SERVICE / (1 NAME)

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