Awsworth
St Peter

Monuments and Memorials

Chancel

On the north wall of the chancel is a brass tablet to Lance Corporal Herbert Coe who died on the Western Front in 1916:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF
LANCE CORPL HERBERT COE
5TH SHERWOOD FORESTERES.
DIED OF WOUNDS RECEIVED IN PICARDY, JULY 3RD 1916,
AGED 25 YEARS.
BURIED AT WARLENCOURT, HALTE, JULY 4TH
AS BOY AND MAN FOR MANY YEARS A CONSISTENT MEMBER OF
AWSWORTH PARISH CHURCH CHOIR.
“E’EN AS HE WENT THAT DAY TO GOD, SO WALKED HE FROM HIS BIRTH,
IN SIMPLENESS, AND GENTLENESS, AND HONOUR, AND CLEAN MIRTH.”
“STILL FOR HIM HIGH SERVICE WAITS
THOUGH EARTH’S LAST FIGHT IS O’ER.”
THIS TABLET IS PLACED HERE BY THOSE WHO LOVED HIM.

Further west is a brass tablet to the Reverend Walter Davies:

In memory of
REVD. WALTER DAVIES

Priest-in-Charge of this Parish
1970-1973

Hitherto the Lord hath helped us.....
1 Samuel Ch.7. V.12.

On the south wall of the chancel is a brass tablet in memory of Private George Albert Smith (1915):

IN MEMORY OF
PTE GEORGE ALBERT SMITH
7TH SHERWOOD FORESTERS
WHO LEFT HIS FAMILY, HIS FRIENDS AND HIS COUNTRY
ON THE OUTBREAK OF THE GREAT WAR
KILLED IN FLANDERS MAY 15TH 1915
AGED 21 YEARS
BURIED IN KEMMEL CHATEAU GROUNDS MAY 1915
AS BOY AND MAN
FOR MANY YEARS A MEMBER OF AWSWORTH
PARISH CHURCH CHOIR

“GREATER LOVE HAS NO ONE THAN THIS
 THAT ONE LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS.”
THIS TABLET IS PLACED HERE BY HIS
FRIENDS AND FELLOW WORKERS

To the west of Smith's tablet are the following two brass tablets:

LARRET PEARSON SAYLES
VICAR OF THIS PARISH
1910-1942
R • I • P
THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY THE
MEMBERS OF THE WOMEN’S FELLOWSHIP.

 

I. P.
MARY ANN MEAKIN
B.Dec11 1823 + D.Aug10 1862

Nave

Above the pulpit is a large brass in memory of the Reverend Vincent Higgins (1911):

IN LOVING AND GRATEFUL MEMORY
OF THE HOLY LIFE AND FAITHFUL MINISTRY OF THE
REV. VINCENT JOSEPH HIGGINS.
FOR 14 YEARS VICAR OF ST PETER’S CHURCH AWSWORTH.
ENTERED INTO REST JULY 7TH 1911.

“HE WALKED IN PEACE AND UPRIGHTNESS, AND DID TURN
MANY FROM INIQUITY.” MALACHI II. 6.
“HE BEING DEAD YET SPEAKETH.” HEBREWS XI. 4.

DURING HIS INCUMBENCY THE NAVE OF THIS CHURCH WAS BUILT.
ALSO THE PARISH ROOM; AN ACRE WAS ADDED TO THE CHURCH YARD
AND THE SITE FOR A VICARAGE PROVIDED.

Below the west window is a brass tablet to Edward Camm (1903):

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF
EDWARD CAMM,
WHO FOR 37 YEARS
FAITHFULLY PERFORMED HIS DUTIES AS
CLERK AND SEXTON OF THIS PARISH
ENTERED INTO REST 10TH APRIL 1903,
AGED 70 YEARS.

THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY SUBSCRIPTION.