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Allendale

The war memorial in the village of Allendale, Northumberland, in the north Pennines, is an oak-framed lychgate on low sandstone walls with a clay-tiled pitched roof and oak side panels which are inscribed and decorated. The front elevation has a wooden cross on the gable framing and all the wooden panels have quatrefoil decorations in the corners. The lychgate stands at the entrance to St. Cuthbert’s churchyard.

In 2006/7 English Heritage and the Wolfson Foundation offered a grant of £2,900 towards work to strip the roof and repair the sarking as necessary, to replace the wooden finials, mouldings, stop chamfers and cappings with exact copies, to repair the panels with wood preserver or spliced-in new wood as necessary and to patch or replace where necessary the sills and pillars of the frame. One feature of the new sills was drainage grooves to remove rain water, which had been one of the reasons for the original decay. All the new wood was oiled and the existing wood oiled and stained and all was treated with an appropriate insecticide.

There is an inscription on the fascia over the gate which reads

"For God + king and country"

The dedication on the centre panel on one side of the lychgate reads

"To the glory of God
and in grateful memory
of the men from this parish
who gave their lives for
their country
in the Great War 1914 – 1919
this lych gate is dedicated"

On either side of this panel are the names on the World War I roll of honour. Facing this on the other side of the lych gate, the central panel is inscribed.

"They whom this lych gate commemorates
were numbered among those who at
the call of
King and country left all
that was dear to them endured hardness,
faced danger and finally passed out
of the sight of men by the path of duty
and self sacrifice by giving up
their own lives that other men might
live in freedom. Let those who come after
see to it that their names
be not forgotten"

On the panel beside this are listed the fallen of World War II.

The memorial was dedicated in the presence of Lady Allendale in August 1920.

Further information

War Memorials Trust reference WM1767
UK National Inventory of War Memorials: 33710

If you have a concern about this memorial please contact the Trust on conservation@warmemorials.org

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