Ainstable Lychgate

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Reference WMO/172845

Address:

St Michael and All Angels Church

Ainstable

Carlisle

CA4 9QN

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Lychgate
Materials:
  • Stone Slate
  • Timber Timber (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: The memorial is a slate tablet on the west inside face of the lychgate wall. Unveiled 1934. The memorial lychgate was designed by J H Martindale who was an ecclesiastical architect in Carlisle and active in the design of local war memorials in the early 1920’s. His work included other lych gates at Skelton (WMO119500) Wetheral ( WMO119507) Barton (WMO130821) and although similar to each other they are different from that at Ainstable. At the unveiling, attention was drawn to the use of timber from the HMS Defiant. Built in 1861 the ship was one of the last wooden boats broken up by Castles in Plymouth. There is unusually a blank space where a name has been erased in column 1 between Ernest Elliott and Edward Hilton. This is assumed to be for a man reported missing, but who eventually turned up. In 2014 a simple paper timeline was added inside the Church, on the north wall. This gives regiments and dates of death for the 10 Ainstable men, and also names, regiments and dates of death for 9 Armathwaite men- for whom there is no local war memorial. Beaumont Hodgson of the RAMC died in hospital in London on 21st April 1915 and is buried at Ainstable.
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IN MEMORIAM/1914-1918/[names]/ THEY HAVE PASSED OUT OF THE WARFARE OF/THIS WORLD INTO THE PEACE OF GOD

Column 1- WILLIAM ABBOTT/LOUIS BETTON/JAMES B ELLIOTT/ERNEST ELLIOTT/EDWARD J HILTON; Column 2- BEAUMONT HODGSON/RICHARD KISSACK/WILLIAM MCKENZIE/HENRY MITTON/GEORGE OSBORNE [Beaumont Hodgson of the RAMC died in London on 21st April 1915 and is buried at Ainstable]

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Grade II (England)

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1462530

1462530

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