Stourbridge Methodist New Road

Stourbridge Methodist New Road

There are three Methodist Memorials at New Road Methodist church. One is the original Memorial panel of the United Methodist Church of New Road. The second was originally at the Wesleyan Church and school. The third is a framed panel which was hung in the War Memorial Hall built to commemorate the members of the Young Men’s Bible Class who died in the war. The list below includes all the names, a total of 56..

The Memorial Hall has now been demolished but the dedication above its door was:

THIS HALL WAS ERECTED BY THE YOUNG MEN’S BIBLE CLASS
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN SACRED MEMORY OF FORMER MEMBERS
ALSO MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL
WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE
IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-18
AND PRESENTED TO AND ACCEPTED BY THE TRUSTEES
FOR THE MORAL PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL WELFARE OF
YOUNG MEN FOR ALL TIME
THE HALL TO BE OPEN DAILY FOR PRIVATE DEVOTION
AND MEDITATION

The list of names is on a painted and framed document originally hanging inside the church. Its dedication is:

IN MEMORIAM.
THE FORMER MEMBERS OF THE YOUNG MEN’S BIBLE CLASS, CHURCH AND SUNDAY
SCHOOL, WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE
IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-18

Around the edge of the frame is repeated three times:

REQUIEM AETERNAM DONA EIS, DOMINE, ET LUX PERPETUE LUCEAT EIS.
REQUIESCANT IN PACE. AMEN

Between the columns of names are the words of:
Wilfred Owen – ‘So Abram rose ...’
John Donne – ‘No man is an island entire of itself ...’
Lawrence Binyon – ‘They shall grow not old ...’