Memorial

St Mary and All Saints, Great Budworth

South wall plaques - dead of WW2 and WW1

Source: Copyright David Long

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St Mary and All Saints Churchyard, High Street, Great Budworth, Vale Royal, Cheshire, CW9 6HG, England

SJ 66487 77517

Church of England

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Type of Memorial: Gate
WMR Reference Number: 1986
Description: Oak framed structure on a red sandstone wall under a stone roof. There is a crucifix on the frame over the outside gates, and the barge boards are elaborately carved. On the inner North wall is the cast bronze plaque bearing the names of those who served and returned in WW1, on the inner South wall are cast bronze plaques, one bearing the names of those who died in WW1, and the other the names of those who died in WW2. The lettering is raised.
Inscription: North wall: THE NAMES OF THOSE OF THIS PARISH WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918 / (NAMES) // South wall WW1: IN HUMBLE THANKFULNESS TO ALMIGHTY GOD FOR THE BLESSINGS OF / VICTORY AND PEACE AND IN UNDYING MEMORY OF THOSE FROM THIS PARISH WHO WENT / FORTH TO FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT AND LAID DOWN / THEIR LIVES IN THE CAUSE THIS LYCH GATE IS DEDICATED MCMXX / (28 NAMES) / THE SOULS OF THE RIGHTEOUS ARE IN THE HAND OF GOD and THERE SHALL NO TORMENT / TOUCH THEM, IN THE SIGHT OF THE UNWISE THEY SEEM TO DIE and THEIR DEPARTURE / IS TAKEN FOR MISERY and THEIR GOING DOWN FROM US TO BE UTTER DESTRUCTION; / BUT THEY ARE IN PEACE. // South wall: GREAT BUDWORTH / IN UNDYING MEMORY OF THOSE WHO WENT FORTH FROM THIS PARISH / AND LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM. / 1939 - 1945 / (8 NAMES) / " WE WILL REMEMBER THEM."