St Cuthbert's Lychgate War Memorial

Heritage listing

Details 459/0/10012 ALLENDALE HUNTINGDON PLACE St Cuthbert's Lychgate War Memorial 11-NOV-09 II First World War Memorial lych gate with Second World War additions, 1920 by Mr J Landell Nicholson and constructed by Messrs J and W Newman; the woodcarver was Mr R. Percy Appleby. MATERIALS: sandstone, oak, tile The memorial takes the form of a gothic lych gate to St Cuthbert's Church from Allendale Market Place. It comprises a timber superstructure with a pitched roof of tile upon a dressed stone base. A carved wooden cross of St Cuthbert sits above the outer entrance. The outer faces of the timber sides are decorated with quatre foils and the inner faces are each divided into three panels which record the inscriptions and the names of the 22 men of Allendale who fell in the Great War and 2 of the men of Allendale who fell in the Second World War. Inscription on overhead arch reads: FOR GOD KING/AND COUNTRY Inscription on centre panel left side reads: 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 (names on panels to either side) Inscription on centre panel right side reads: 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. Inscription on left panel right side reads: 1939-1945 WAR (names) HISTORY: the memorial was designed by Mr J Landell Nicholson, the masons were Messrs J and W Newman and the woodcarver

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.