The design of the Rood , by “Mr. Robinson of Westminster” was announced in the Parish magazine of September 1917: “It will take the form of Cavalry in oak over the choir screen. The Bishop of London has seen the design and strongly approve of it. The cost, roughly, will be £100 – less rather than more. Cartoons are being prepared …”. The design was duly printed in the magazine the following month: “It is distinctly a religious Memorial, representing the Great Sacrifice and is therefore , in this particular distinct from the public memorial, or seat, to be erected at the corner of the Churchyard . Near to the memorial will be a brass plate recording the names of the fallen.”
The Vicar, in his inimitable style wrote: “ It is hoped by this means, the names will not only be commemorated but provide a perpetual lesson to our children and children’s children of the days, and the deeds, and the men who, when we were passing through the valley of the shadow of death, offered themselves as a sacrifice. … When they look at the crowned figure of the Christ, when they see His arms outstretched in blessing, and His face supremely happy, they will say ‘these people believed in the Resurrection; they did not think the lads whose bones lie out yonder in foreign lands were dead; they believed they were with God’”.
The Holy Rood in Memory of those Fallen in the War was unveiled on Saturday 28 September 1918, on the eve of the Patronal Feast of St Michael and All Angels. The bronze plaque, inscribed with the names submitted by the congregation of the 91 Fallen from the Parish, was finalised some months later in 1919.
They are:
| Edwin T ADAMS Frank ADAMS Robert ASHLEY Andrew ATKINSON William ATKINSON Cyril F AUSTIN Robert BARKER Bernard A BARKER T G BAVIN Philip H BENNETT W Sterndale BENNETT W H H BOND Cecil G CASTLE Cecil A CLERK Joseph CLITHEROE A H COATSWORTH William A COLLETT Hubert C deZ COLLIER J Laurie CRAIG George E CRIPPS B CROOKENDEN John DAVIES C F DANCE Oswald S Royal DAWSON C P P DIETERLE G B STRAHAN H TAVERNER Garnet WALSH C C B WARD Cyril F WEBB T. H WEIR |
G. M DOCKER William DOWSETT Leonard DUNCKLEY Brian S FLOOD A BIRKET-FOSTER Richard S GAMBLE Tom GEORGE Conrad GIBSON Alfred GOULD George GOULD Jack GOULD A I GOWAR Reuben GREGORY George A GRUBB Edwin F HAINES K L HALLWARD John G HAMMOND Joseph H HAMMOND Rupert HAWARD Hugh M HOLLAND R W HAYBITTLE C HAZEON Sam HEATH Tom HEATH A C HOLLAND C JENKINS William WHITTICK R P WHITTLE L WILSON C E A WILSON Norman D B WOODMAN H E WYATT |
Kenneth KEMP Alfred KING Frank KISTLER W N OLIFF-LEE Sidney I LEEDER W H LINDSAY Violet LONG N M LOWE William MARLEY George W MAUNDERS Frank W MURLIS Arthur W I NIXON Arthur H NORMAN Alfred PAINES Frank M PALLANT Harold PIFFARD H POPE A A ROBINSON G Philip ROWLANDSON John B SALE Hugo SMYTH Thomas A SQUIRE William C STEELE S R STEVENS Walter S I STEVENS G STEVENSON R F C YORKE Charles H YOUNG |