Holton Le Clay Memorial,

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Reference WMO/209640

Address:

St. Peter's Church,

Church Lane,

Holton le Clay

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Pillar/column
Materials:
  • Other Concrete
  • Stone Marble
Lettering: Raised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: There has been worship in this church for some 1,100 years, as we look at the church from the south side together with its Saxon Tower built between 1040 and 1070 AD and narrower taller nave that went with it built at the expense of the Countess Lucy, a grand-daughter of Lady Godiva who owned a good deal of the land in Holton and Tetney, the neighbouring village to the east of Holton. The tower which is some 14.3 metres high, can be climbed by a series of three ladders. From the top, which formed an official look-out post during the 1939-45 World War, a commanding view of the village can be seen, and on a clear day, Louth Church Spire can be seen to the South; Grimsby Dock Tower to the North; the Lincolnshire Wolds and Waltham Windmill to the West and Spurn Point lighthouse and ships at anchor in the Humber estuary to the East. The village war memorial stands clean and proud within the church yard.:- White marble square pillar set on a concrete base. Surmounting the pillar is a decorative marble urn half covered with marble moulded flowing material. At the top of the pillar beneath where the urn stands are arched areas where the stone is cut away. (c IWM) The memorial in a white marble with an urn on the top stands on a concrete base. The whole structure measures 2100mm high. The top block measures 380mm in width, the next block is 560mm wide, and the two bottom blocks made of concrete are 660mm and 780mm in width respectively. The main East Facing side has the inscription and below it a piece of poetry, depicted in two photographs as below. Clearly the memorial was paid for by Public Subscription for the Great War, and later some names of the fallen from the village were added after the Second World War. The monument was cleaned and restored in 2004-2005, following some vandalism during which the lead lettering of the inscriptions were removed, and now have been renewed. This is visible on the subsequent photographs where the writing appears quite different.
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East Face: This/monument was erected/by the parishioners/of Holton-le-Clay/in memory of/those who from this/parish have fallen in/the Great War/1914-1919/// 'More than conquerors through/him that loved us'.North Face: WW1 Names///In memory of those who died/in conflicts since World War. West face: WW2 Names. South Face: WW1 Names.

Names 1st World War who died Arthur Fyfe Forge October 4 1917 Wilfred Dobbs November 10 1918, Fred Wakelin April 13 1917 Arthur Thomas Smith May 17 1917, Harry Hutson April 15 1918 Cyril Roots October 13 1915 Second World War Names: Alan Hutson May 29 19140, Frank Leslie Scrimshaw June 18 1941, Edwin Bellamey September 6 1941, Charles Storey Forster July 2nd 1943

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