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Sandridge Lychgate is a war memorial in the village of Sandridge, Hertfordshire, England. The timber lychgate with its flanking walls is listed Grade II, [1] and is the entrance to the churchyard of St Leonard's Church, Sandridge. It records the names of the community's 24 fallen soldiers and also those of survivors of World War I. [2]
In the aftermath of World War I and its unprecedented casualties, thousands of war memorials were built across Britain. Sandridge is one of a number of lychgate war memorials. Another Hertfordshire example is at Benington.
An inscription on the left side of the gate reads
TO / THE GLORY OF GOD / THIS LYCHGATE / WAS ERECTED/ IN GRATEFUL MEMORY / OF THE MEN / OF THIS PARISH / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 - 1918 / AND / KEEPS ALIVE ALSO / THE MEMORY OF / THOSE WHO FELL / IN THE WORLD WAR OF / 1939 - 1945 [2]
The Lychgate was unveiled and dedicated in a ceremony on Sunday 24 April 1921 at 3pm.
The lesson was Revelation xxxi, 1-7 and read by the Reverend T. W. Lister. The Address was given by the Dean of St Albans the Very Reverend G W Blenkin. At the Lychgate itself the unveiling was by Colonel Henry Page Croft MP.
The final hymn sung by the children
O valiant Hearts Who to your glory came"
This was followed by the Benediction, then The Last Post a brief silence and the Reveille and the National Anthem. [3]
The gate was listed in 1984. [1]
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