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Summary

Stained-glass window in memory of those who died in World War I.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II*) 1108047: CHURCH OF ALL HALLOWS

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• WAR MEMORIAL (World War I - 1914 AD to 1918 AD (Between))

Full description

Walls, S., 2010, The Materiality of Remembrance: Twentieth Century War Memorials in Devon, 126; Fiugure 5.12h; RIN01 (Post-Graduate Thesis). SDV355902.

One of three public war memorials in the South Hams in the form of a window, which commemorate the First World War.

Ordnance Survey, 2014, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV355681.

Imperial War Museum, 2014, War Memorials Archive, 55866 (Website). SDV356253.

Stained glass window on the north wall of the church . Above the window to the left of the inscription another window shows St George kneeling before a cross. To the right above the inscription is a crucifixion scene. On the left of the inscription an angelic figure holds a laurel wreath. Surmounting all is an angelic figure holding a crown.
Inscription: IN PROUD AND UNDYING MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES FOR THEM IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918/ THIS MEMORIAL WINDOW IS ERECTED BY THE/ PARISHIONERS TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ NAMES/ GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS

Unknown, 2014, With the British Army in Flanders (Website). SDV356126.

Photographs show the stained-glass window at Ringmore church, the background of which pays tribute to all three services with, above the kneeling figure, soldiers crossing No Man’s Land and a British biplane circling above, while to the right the Royal Navy waits offshore.

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