St. Peter's Church, Stanway

Ordnance Survey Reference: SP 061323

War Memorials

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There is a wooden cross hanging on an interior wall. It has a series of metal strips nailed to it, which have letters embossed with a punch. They read:
R U
L 10
2/LT HON J.A.CHARTERIS
1ST GRENADIER GDS.
KIA 17-10-15

There are inscriptions carved on the stone to either side of a window in the church. They read:

  REMEMBER                        HUGO FRANCIS
ALFRED HENRY                     CHARTERIS LORD 
BUGGINS * FRANK                 ELCHO * IVO ALAN
BUGGINS * HENRY                    CHARTERIS
CHARLES THOMBS                   CHARLES RICHARD
HUBERT THOMBS                    GERALD MITCHELL
ERNEST JAMES                     AND FRED STARKEY
  TOWNSEND                       WHO FELL IN THE 
WILLIAM JAMES                       GREAT WAR
EWINGTON AND                         1914 - 
FRANCIS LANE                          1918
And attached to the window sill itself is a bronze plaque with the following:
Remember also
Lawrence John Samuel Bolton
and
Reginald Victor Tarpitt
Who gave their lives in the War
1939-1945

War Memorial

Ordnance Survey Reference: SP 061322

A Bronze statue by the roadside on a Cotswold stone pillar. The statue depicts St George slaying the dragon. Going anticlockwise round the four sides of the plinth, we have:


MEN OF STANWAY
1914-1918
 FOR A TOMB
THEY HAVE AN ALTAR
FOR LAMENTATIONS
MEMORY
FOR PITY
PRAISE

ALFRED HENRY
BUGGINS . FRANK
BUGGINS . HENRY
CHARLES THOMBS
HUBERT THOMBS
ERNEST JAMES
TOWNSEND AND
FRANCIS LANE


FOR YOUR
TO-MORROW
WE GAVE
OUR TO-DAY

HUGO FRANCIS
CHARTERIS LORD
ELCHO . IVO ALAN
CHARTERIS
CHARLES RICHARD
GERALD MITCHELL
WILLIAM JAMES
EWINGTON AND
FRED STARKEY
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