BRADFIELD ST.GEORGE WAR MEMORIAL


Bradfield St.George (St George) The war memorial is a wooden reredos with a stone tablet. The reredos depicts the nativity,with St.George and St.Alban in the side niches. Sculpted by W.Hitch and built by F.L.Pearson, it was unveiled and dedicated on 30th July 1920 by Venerable G.Hodges, Archdeacon of Sudbury.
The stone tablet, headed by a Celtic cross, carries the inscription shown here. It measure 50cm by 81cm

There is also a Thanksgiving in a carved niche with a trefoil arch and canopy, a plaster statue of St George with shield and spear, 122 cm high and 66 cm wide. Sculpted by C.Blakeman it was unveiled in 1949


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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old,
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them.