We’ve looked around the churchyard before, a couple of years back, but I didn’t show you inside the church.
A bit of furniture rearranging…
…and this window can be seen to be a Second World War Roll of Honour.
There’s also a Great War Roll of Honour listing those who served, with, in the centre,…
…those who fell.
The wooden screen…
…remembers Captain John Hanbury Chads, Royal Navy, who died in 1916 aged 84. He had served on ships in the Pacific and the Baltic, and commanded H.M.S. Persian off the Cape of Good Hope in the late 1850s, before retiring in 1870.
A second Great War Roll of Honour,…
…with the names and regimental badges of those who died on the outer windows.
Window dedicated to ‘our son Harry Sparks who died at sea after the wreck of S.S. Trevessa 25th June 1923′. The Trevessa went down in the Indian Ocean, and the story of one of its lifeboats’ subsequent 1,700 mile journey…
…is told in this newspaper article from the Melbourne Argus, as is the fate of Harry Sparks and seven of his colleagues.
Time waits for no one. The lych gate seen in the first picture of this post is also a war memorial, and you can take a closer look here.