St Ann's Nottingham - Parish and Congregation
On Sunday 19th June 1921, according to the Nottingham Evening Post a day later, ‘the church of St Ann’s, Nottingham, was filled to its utmost capacity... when a crowded congregation gathered to acknowledge the debt due to the 300 (sic) men of the parish who gave their lives in the defence of their country during the war, and to take part in the ceremony (led by municipal leaders and clergy) of unveiling a handsome memorial of oak panelling which has been erected round the chancel.’ This report, along with the recently unearthed photograph appearing here, confirms that St Ann’s officially recorded total of Great War fatalities was 301 rather than 387 cited on the 1921 St Mary’s, Lace Market plaque. The remainder it seems were allocated to a separate memorial, standing at the junction of Woodthorpe Drive and Plains Road, Mapperley, for the parish of St Jude (since 1877 a daughter church of St Ann). David Nunn
Identified casualties
300
people
- Names on this memorial
- Photographs
Names on this memorial
- Allen JWG
- Allen AG
- Allsopp H
- Allsopp W
- Archer F
- Arnold W
- Ashford A
- Atkin W
- Austin GH
- Ayers W
- Bainbridge W
- Ball RH
- T Barker
- Barker J
- Barnes C
- Barrowcliffe F
- Bates WH
- Beadles A
- Beanland B
- Beanland GE
- Beckworth G
- Bee A
- Bentley E
- Billson A
- Bingham G
- Bingham A
- Birkin JH
- Bishop A
- Blatherwick S
- Blunden TI
- Boyington A
- Brewin A
- Brewin J
- Briggs E
- Broadhead W
- Brookes W
- Brough J
- Brown G
- Brown A
- Brown WH
- Brown LG
- Burdell CL
- Burden C
- Burkitt W
- Burns E
- Butler H
- Butlin M
- Carr G
- Carr EW
- Carrington H
- Carrington W
- Cavers WC
- Champion W
- Champion W
- Champion R
- Charlesworth C
- Clarke H
- Claypole W
- Cocker W
- Comery F
- Cooke G
- Cooper E
- Cotton J
- Cuttriss E
- Cutts A
- Dale T
- Daley A
- Dawson J
- Derrick F
- Derry J
- Dexter WJ
- Dignen GW
- Dixey A
- Dixon T
- Dixon JW
- Doyle W
- Dresher L
- Ducker R
- Duckers P
- Edwards WC
- Egner H
- Elliott F
- Elvidge J
- Ensor JL
- Everitt B
- Farmery G
- Fiddes W
- Fletcher CH
- Flinders H
- Flinders W
- Flint H
- Fogg W
- Foster W
- Fowlds E
- Fowler G
- Gaitskell J
- Garner AE
- Garrett JW
- Gibson A
- Goodson L
- Greasley W
- Greatorex J
- Green A
- Hague CH
- Handley J
- Handley HG
- Hardy R
- Hardy W
- Harris W
- Harrison GH
- Hart J
- Hawkins L
- Henley F
- Henshaw T
- Henson R
- Hind A
- Hind A
- Hollingworth H
- Holroyd T
- Horsley H
- Hubbard H
- Humphreys E
- Hunt GH
- Hurst A
- Jackson TS
- Jesson W
- Kerton G
- Keyworth W
- Knight PA
- Knowles JS
- Lamb F
- Lander AW
- Lang GE
- Lang C
- Lang W
- Lawson HE
- Leatherland J
- Ledger EL
- Loveday G
- Lowe T
- Lowe R
- Lymn A
- Manners A
- Martin H
- Mason P
- McCormack E
- Merriman H
- Middleton A
- Middleton WT
- Millhouse FJ
- Moran T
- Morgan JW
- Morley H
- Morris A
- Morris W
- Morrison A
- Moseley H
- Munton J
- Needham C
- Neville RW
- Newton F
- Newton A
- Newton L
- O'Brien P
- Oldham AV
- Oldknow W
- Palethorpe RE
- Parker J
- Parkinson A
- Parsons W
- Parsons A
- Pawley H
- Pearson E
- Peet E
- Peet A
- Pendleton L
- Perry A
- Pickering W
- Pilgrim J
- Porter WC
- Potter RJ
- Pownall E
- Pride L
- Proctor C
- Quarton A
- Radford H
- Redgate H
- Reynolds R
- Richardson W
- Richardson R
- Richardson T
- Roe A
- Rolfe JW
- Rose C
- Rose A
- Rowe WA
- Rowlett GT
- Rushworth W
- Russell J
- Russell A
- Ryecroft H
- Sadler A
- Sansom A
- Sears H
- Shardlow WF
- Sharp C
- Sharpe AFC
- Shaw WP
- Shelton GF
- Shelton H
- Shelton LC
- Sheppard JH
- Sheppard CE
- Shore A
- Silvers AJ
- Silverwood TJ
- Smedley WH
- Smith WT
- Smith C
- Smith W
- Smith I
- Smith A
- Spinks T
- Spooner A
- Spooner SH
- Spooner E
- Stamps A
- Stanfield A
- Stanley G
- Starr W
- Stephenson PB
- Stones T
- Stoneystreet J
- Stout FH
- Stringfellow A
- Sturdy H
- Sturdy F
- Sturtivant S
- Sutton HJ
- Swann T
- Taylor F
- Taylor A
- Terry L
- Thomas PL
- Thorpe H
- Thorpe F
- Timson GA
- Tombs G
- Tooms CF
- Toop AH
- Truman W
- Tuckwood C
- Turner AJ
- Turner JH
- Turton CS
- Turton J
- Tutin H
- Twigger J
- Unwin JW
- Urry H
- Urry C
- Vickers B
- Wagstaffe C
- Walker FE
- Walker CE
- Walker F
- Walker C
- Ward FW
- Wardle J
- Ware TH
- Ware CT
- Warren H
- Watts J
- Weatherall J
- Welbourne CE
- Weston FH
- Weston D
- Wheat H
- Wheatley JC
- Wheelhouse L
- White W
- White C
- Whiteton JC
- Whiteton P
- Whitworth WS
- Whitworth S
- Wilcockson T
- Wilkins L
- Williamson AT
- Wilson H
- Wilson AE
- Winfield E
- Wise T
- Woolley A
- Worrall H
- Wragg W
- Wragg G
- Wright J
- Wroughton C
- Wroughton H
Photographs
Photo courtesy of Mavis Paskulich (née Baker), born in St Ann’s Valley, Nottingham and former resident of 356, St Ann’s Well Road. Mavis is responsible for the excellent St Ann’s Well Rd Pre-Demolition (1970) Online Community (Facebook group) and website. She first obtained this photograph from group member David Smedley and Tony Miller has now provided a clearer image.
The names are listed in 28 categories: Sherwood Foresters, King's Royal Rifle Corps, Lancashire Fusiliers, Northumberland Fusiliers, Royal Field Artillery, Royal Garrison Artillery, Royal Scots, Highland Light Infantry, King's Own Scottish Borderers, Scottish Rifles, Border Regiment, Royal Engineers, Leicestershire Regiment, Lincolnshire Regiment, York & Lancaster Regiment, Staffordshire Regiment, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, London Regiment, Durham Light Infantry, Labour Corps, Army Service Corps, Grenadier Guards, Canadians, Gloucestershire Regiment, Machine Gun Corps, Warwickshire Regiment, Died Other Regiments
St Ann's Church, St Ann's Well Road Nottingham. Photo courtesy of Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project
Designed by local architect Robert Clarke, the church of St Ann opened in 1864, with a seating capacity of 254, as a daughter church to St Mary the Virgin Nottingham. St Ann became an independent parish in 1865 and a school, which became popular and well attended, was soon added to the site. By the early 1950s, plans to re-develop the St Ann’s area were in preparation and the final service was held at St Ann’s on Easter Sunday 1971. ‘Immediately afterwards,’ according to the Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project, ‘a few male members of the congregation set about dismantling and removing the organ, a task they completed late on Easter Monday evening. Unfortunately we have no information as to where, or whether, the organ was installed elsewhere. Demolition commenced at 8 a.m. the next day. Several items removed from St. Ann’s now reside in other local churches, and the east window is now in the USA; sadly other items were left to the fate of the demolishers’ hammers or the scrap yard.’ Attempts to trace the St Ann’s Parish and Congregation Great War memorial having proved fruitless, it must be reluctantly concluded that the plaque was probably amongst ‘other items’ discarded or destroyed during demolition. David Nunn