Leamington Mission Church WM

South Warwickshire Family History Society - War Memorial Transcription Project

Leamington Spa Mission Church of the Good Shepherd

Now Located at All Saints Church, Priory Close, Leamington Spa CV31 1AA

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TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF THE MEN
OF THE MISSION CHURCH AND DISTRICT
WHO FOUGHT AND DIED IN THE WAR
1914 ~ 1918

IS IT NOTHING TO YOU ALL YE WHO PASS BY

THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED AT THE MISSION CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD IN 1919 AND MOVED HERE IN 1938

ALCOCK A.C.	ALCOCK A.R.	AVERY A.	BARR J.	BASKOTT W.	BATCHELOR F.
BELLAMY R.	BENFIELD J.	BIRD H.	BOSWELL F.	BULL A.	BOUCHER J.
EDEN W.	GARDENER F.	GOSSAGE B.	GREEN H.J.	GREGORY A.	GILKS H.
HARWOOD G.	HARRIS F.	HANCOCK J.	HARWOOD C.	LANE J.W.	LADKIN R.
LEE H.	NEAL A.	NORTH H.	PARSONS C.	PRESTIDGE H.	RICKABY H.
ROBINSON W.	STOCKS C.	SMITH S.G.	SMITH A.E	SHILVOCK R.	SKELCEY R.
SKELCEY C.J.	SMITH L.	TIMS W.	TIMS F.	VOWLES W.	WILLIAMS E.

The Mission Church of the Good Shepherd now lies under the Priors Shopping Mall on the southern side of Warwick Street alongside the lost Satchwell Street. Built in wood and iron in the 1880s by the new vicar of All Saints, it was replaced in 1889 by the more substantial structure pictured. The church and mission hall was intended to cater for the poor of the district, but services faltered around 1914, and the building was closed in 1924, and demolished in 1938/9. More here on Churches of the British Isles.

The Memorial Plaque was moved to All Saints Church, where it remains today, in 1938.

©Bibliography All of our information is independently researched and then compared to other sources. A list of the sources we use to do our independent research will be published soon. All of the photographs herein are linked back to their original source, except those taken by SWFHS. We are grateful to those other sources:

Philip Wilson, Curator of the Warwickshire Yeomanry Museum
The Warwickshire Yeomanry in the Great War by The Hon. H.A ADDERLEY
Trench Maps are courtesy of the excellent website TMAPPER at https://www.tmapper.com
The County of Warwickshire Roll of Honour - Vol 1 South Warwickshire book by Kenneth Fowler. SWFHS purchased this book and retains it in our small library. Able Publishing ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1903607639 & ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1903607633
Find A Grave and it's numerous contributors for use of photographs, particularly Grave stones. SWFHS supplies pictures of the fallen and War Memorials to the site in the name of Ian Shuter.
The Great War Forum an excellent source of information and knowledge which is freely given.
David Austin and the Imperial War Museum for the memorial photographs