 Clumber Park
St Mary
Monuments and Memorials
The south west side of the Chapel Crossing a 360 x 710mm memorial plaque in brass is mounted:
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF
HENRY PELHAM ARCHIBALD DOUGLAS
7TH DUKE OF NEWCASTLE
FOUNDER OF THIS CHURCH
WHO DIED 30TH MAY 1928
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A further memorial plaque is fitted centrally on the south wall of the Lady Chapel:
To the honour of God and for the adornment of
this church & in commemoration of the marriage of
Henry Duke of Newcastle, founder of the same, and
Kathleen his wife the tenants of this estate dedicate
the windows in this chapel & the south transept. A.D. 1889. |
Another memorial brass plaque 75 x 310 mm is fitted in the crossing with the inscription:
TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN COMMEMORATION
OF THE MARRIAGE OF HENRY, SEVENTH DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.
THE INHABITANTS OF WORKSOP DEDICATED THIS PULPIT 1889. |
A further memorial brass plaque 150 x 275 mm is fitted to the northwest screen wall of the choir and has the inscription:
Until the sea give up the dead that are therein,
Jesu Lord of life eternal, grant rest and peace
unto thy servant Algenon Sidney Osborne Sweet.
Chorister in this chapel 1897, Chaplin of the Natal,
who perished in the sinking ship Dec. 30. 1915 + |
The reports at the time indicate HMS Natal was a Duke of Edinburgh-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1900s. During World War I the ship was assigned to the 2nd Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet, but did not participate in any battles. Natal was sunk by an internal explosion near Cromarty as indicated on the plaque and the Admiralty court-martial into the causes of her loss concluded that it was caused by an internal ammunition explosion, possibly due to faulty cordite.
The Admiralty issued a revised list of the dead and missing that totalled 390 in January 1916, but did not list the seven women and three children and one civilian male on board by invitation of the Captain that day. Losses are variously listed elsewhere as from 390 to 421.
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