HEXAB152  Click onThumbnail for 3 photos | ||||||
| NEWMP H51.46 + 3 photos | ||||||
| Cross on war memorial chapel altar | ||||||
| cross | furniture | ||||||
| wood | ||||||
| gold | ||||||
| Gilded wooden cross on rectangular base with ribbed scrolled edges to four points of cross. Spiral decoration on oblong stem. The central boss has a chrismon (Chi-Rho ☧) on the front and an intertwined IHS on the rear. [IHS = the first three letters of the name Jesus in Greek (ΙΗΣΟΥΣ), often used as a Christian emblem.] Part of set with candlesticks HEXAB153 | ||||||
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| Most initial letters slightly larger | ||||||
| Designed by William Douglas Caröe (1857–1938), architect to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. | ||||||
| c1936 | ||||||
| Roll of Honour, altar, candlesticks, cross, and standard candlesticks were dedicated on 2nd February 1936 at Evensong by the Lord Bishop of Newcastle. [Hex.Par.Mag. Mar/Apr 1936] | ||||||
| H 450 | Base W 230 | Base D 210 | ||||||
| on display | ||||||
| Unknown | ||||||
| CND: NTAF7 1935. On the 18th day of June 1935. To place an altar of oak, cross, candlesticks, flower bowls and standard lights in the North Transept of the said Church … Faculty reg. no.1, p.45, no.1300. NRO EP.184/80. Caröe designed the altar, cross, candlesticks, standard candlesticks, wooden vases, communion rail kneeler. Faculty file, DN/8/2/2/1300. | ||||||
| See also URL: www.iwm.org.uk | ||||||