St. Saviour's Church, Station Road, Shotton Colliery (Shotton Colliery)
This is St. Saviour's Church, built 1852-4, P.C. Hardwick. Ruined but then restored 1903, S. Wilkinson (1) (2). Streetview images (3) show a stone built church with steep pitched roof over the nave, lower roofline over eastern chancel with a projected vestry on the north side with chimney stack. Sloping roof joining the nave over the northern aisle with a projected entrance porch on the western end of the north wall. Eastern gable has a large pointed arch window, cross finial over the apex. The church is known to contain a number of features dedicated as war memorials (4-5).
The churchyard of St. Saviour's also contains a memorial thought to be dedicated to one of the first men to be killed in the First World War, George Winwood. The memorial takes the form of a cylindrical column of polished black granite surmounted by a cross, the inscription on the front stating he was killed in the first naval battle of the great European War on HMS Arethusa, Friday August 28th 1914. (4)
The churchyard of St. Saviour's also contains a memorial thought to be dedicated to one of the first men to be killed in the First World War, George Winwood. The memorial takes the form of a cylindrical column of polished black granite surmounted by a cross, the inscription on the front stating he was killed in the first naval battle of the great European War on HMS Arethusa, Friday August 28th 1914. (4)
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First World War (1914 to 1918)
Second World War (1939 to 1945)
21st Century (2001 to 2100)
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