ALLENDALE LYCHGATE

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Reference WMO/90654

Address:

St Cuthbert's Church

Huntingdon Place

Allendale

Hexham

NE47 9BA

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Lychgate
Materials:
  • Timber Oak
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: The war memorial in the village of Allendale, Northumberland, in the north Pennines, is an oak-framed lychgate on low sandstone walls with a clay-tiled pitched roof and oak side panels which are inscribed and decorated. The front elevation has a wooden cross on the gable framing and all the wooden panels have quatrefoil decorations in the corners. The lychgate stands at the entrance to St. Cuthbert’s churchyard.The 1990s photograph predates the restoration work undertaken in 2006.
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(ACROSS GATE) FOR GOD + KING AND COUNTRY + (CENTRE PANEL SIDE 1) TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF MEN FROM THIS PARISH/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR/ THEIR COUNTRY IN THE/ GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919/ THIS LYCH GATE IS DEDICATED (CENTRE PANEL SIDE 2) THEY WHOM THIS LYCH GATE COMMEMORATES/ WERE NUMBERED AMONG THOSE WHO AT/ THE CALL OF/ KING AND COUNTRY LEFT ALL/ THAT WAS DEAR TO THEM ENDURED HARDNESS,/ FACED DANGER AND FINALLY PASSED OUT/ OF THE SIGHT OF MEN BY THE PATH OF DUTY/ AND SELF SACRIFICE BY GIVING UP/ THEIR OWN LIVES THAT OTHER MEN MIGHT/ LIVE IN FREEDOM. LET THOSE WHO COME AFTER/ SEE TO IT THAT THEIR NAMES/ BE NOT FORGOTTEN/ (NAMES) On a beam: Roll / of / Honour./1939-1945/[names]

Grade II (England)

1393517

Allendale

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Allendale Parish Council