St Ruthen's Lych Gate Longden

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• HER Number (PRN): 31337
• Site Name : St Ruthen's Lych Gate Longden
• Monument Type:
  • War Memorial (20th century (inter-war))
• Civil Parish:
  • Longden , Shrewsbury and Atcham, Shropshire
• Grid Reference: SJ
• Brief Description: An oak lych gate commemorating the dead of both World Wars.
• Description: Description: Lychgate with oak rails on either side and a dedicatory bronze plaque on the front beam which bears inscription. ->
  
  -> Inscription: This plaque was erected to the Glory of God/ and in honoured memory of the men who fell in the Great War 1939 - 45/ (Names) <1>
  
  Source note: On a vist to photograph the Lych gate (14th April 2015) it was noted that there were two dedicatory plaques. The one on the front beam remembered those from the 1914-1918 war and the second plaque on the rear beam, inside the gate, those of the 1939 to 1945 war. <2>
• Record Type: Monument
• Sources:

  (01)	Online database: Imperial War Museum. Imperial War Museum: National Inventory of War Memorials. 13960.
  (02)	SMR comment: Haynes J B. 2014 onwards. Comments by J B Haynes, HER Compiler.

• Tags:
  • War Memorial
• Related Places:
  • Longden, Shrewsbury and Atcham, Shropshire (Civil Parish)
• For more information contact: Shropshire Council HER
• Date Created: 07/05/2015 11:44:21
• Date Last Edited: 07/05/2015 13:06:59