Inscriptions Outside the Church

Modified on Monday, 01 March 2010 14:37 by Philip Rawlings (administrator) Categorized as Uncategorized

Transcribed by John A Gibbs 1933 as recorded in Abinger Church and Churchyard Inscriptions 1934.

===South Porch===
Completely destroyed 3.8.1944.
<blockquote>To the Glory of God this porch was erected by the Farmers of Abinger AD 1857. "Of thine own have we given Thee".</blockquote>
===Outside the South Wall of the Churchyard===
<blockquote>
This Village Green is dedicated to the memory of those from the Parish of Abinger who fell in the Great War 1914-1918. 

John Beckett, John Foord  
Andrew Earnest Bone,  Russell Forehand  
Eric Brady,  George Gadd  
Ben Bliss,  Thomas Holloway  
Herbert W Carpenter,  William Herbert Hunt 
Frank Charman,  Grace King  
Henry Charman,  William Mitchinson  
George Cooper,  Mark Moore  
Edward Jack Curtis,  John Muggeridge  
Henry Elms,  Walter Selwyn Orpen  
Charles H Etherington, Albert Edward Smith  

The land was purchased and endowed by their friends and neighbours and placed in the custody of the Abinger Parish Council in the year 1920.{BR} "Pereunt et imputantur".
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Some background on those here inscribed [warmemorial|here]. A facsimile of this stone and inscription is on the Clock House facing the green at Abinger Hammer and another on the YMCA hut (1920) facing the green at Forest Green.

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