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    Memorial

    St. John's Church

    St Johns Church - Pulpit

    Source: Copyright John E Scurr

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    Current Location

    St Johns Church, Brunswick St, Whitby, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, YO21 1DU, England

    OS Grid Reference

    NZ 89708 10892

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    Type of Memorial
    Church Fabric / Fitting: Pulpit or pulpit part
    WMR Reference Number
    30845
    Description
    Carved oak pulpit on a stone base. The names are carved on panels below the upper floor. The panel with the dedication has a plain Latin Cross above the inscription and a laurel wreath below.
    Inscription
    Panel 1: (NAMES) Panel 2: THIS PULPIT WAS DEDICATED/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ IN HONOURED MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF THIS CONGREGATION/ WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES/ FOR THEIR COUNTRY AND EMPIRE/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 1918 Panel 3: (NAMES)/ "We look for the resurrection of the/ dead and the life of the world to come"/"THeir name liveth for evermore"/ ERECTED 1920 Panel 4: 1939 - 1945/ (NAMES)
    War
    First World War (1914-1918)
    Number Commemorated
    34
    Died
    34
    Information shown
    Forenames, surname
    Order of names
    Surname
    War
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Number Commemorated
    14
    Died
    14
    Information shown
    Forenames, surname
    Order of names
    Surname
    Maker(s)
    • John Varley, Wood Carver

    • W Cocking, Kirkheaton, Architect

    Ceremonies

    Dedicated

    30 September 1920

    Rev CR Horne MA RD, Bishop Suffragan of Whitby

    Components

    Pulpit

    Made from: Wood - Oak


    Condition: Unknown


    Names

    Names listed on this memorial

    • Sidney Birbeck

    • Allan Parkinson Anderson

    • Harwood Woodwark Barton

    • Ernest William Blenkiron

    • Thomas Robert Burn

    • Arthur Douthwaite

    • Albert Edward Gibbin

    • George Payne Hill

    • John Hunter

    • Laurence Kitching

    • James Lowther

    • Frederick Potter

    • Henry Skilbeck

    • Edward Knaggs Stonehouse

    • Thomas Welham Vasey

  • Whitby Gazette September 1920