Barnsley, Blucher Street UMC, Communion Chairs

The building today from Google Maps

The building that was the Blucher Street United Methodist Church is now the Hope House Church and School.  

We have found several mentions of two memorial Communion Chairs presented to the Church by Mrs T Lindley, firstly in the Minute books of the Methodist Church and also in a newspaper cutting from 25 October 1919.  Refer to the page for the memorial window proposed and dedicated at the same time for images of these documents.

Could these chairs still exist in private hands?

Links:

War Memorials Archive listing

War Memorials Online listing

Research by BarnsleyHistorian

Inscription on the Chairs:
"To the Glory of God and in ever-loving memory of Foster Lindley, Frank Marcus Lindley, Claude Scott, who fell in the Great War, 1914-1918." Barnsley Chronicle 25 October 1919


Foster and Frank Lindley were the sons of Thomas and Alice Lindley of 54 Park Grove, according to their Commonwealth War Graves Commission entries, Claude Scott was their son in law according to the Minutes of the Church referred to above.

The three men are also remembered on a War Memorial gravestone in Barnsley Cemetery.

Foster Lindley died 5 September 1916 and is buried in Varennes Military Cemetery in France and commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.

Frank Marcus Lindley died on 30 July 1917 and is buried in Coxyde Military Cemetery in Belgium and commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.

Claude Scott died on 13 November 1916 and is buried in Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps in France and commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website. 





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