Memorial: M6306

Window at Chester Cathedral dedicated to Robert Armstrong Yerburg MP d. 1816

Location

Chester Cathedral, Chester, Cheshire, England

Transcript

'To the Glory of GOD / and in grateful memory of / the life and work of / Robert Armstrong Yerburgh / Died December 18 1916', 'for 25 years member of Parliament / for the City of Chester / President of the Navy League / this Memorial Window was given by / Friends and Citizens of Chester 1922.', 'NAVY LEAGUE, KEEP WATCH'.

Details

Description: Four light window, part of a scheme in the cloisters based on the church's year. The windows depict St Leo, St Alphege, St George and St Anselm (whose feast days all fall in April on the 11,19, 21 and 23 respectively). St Anselm holds a ship, St Alphege has viking ships in the background and St George has Dover Castle shown behind the figure. The third light has the badge of the Navy League at the top flanked by ships. The commemorative inscriptions in the lower part of the windows are on rectangular panes, superimposed on diamonds, each painted with two entwined dolphins. Between them is a cartouche depicting a galleon with the date 1588 and another with a cruiser and the date 1916.
Type: Window
Position: Cloisters
Materials: Glass
Date Erected: 1922
Artists: Archibald Keightley Nicholson, Frederick Charles Eden

People

Yerburgh, Robert
Age:
Date of Death: 18/12/1916
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: President of the Navy League
Organisation: Navy League

Extra

Notes: Erected by public subscription. Saints are shown on three sides of the cloisters and protestant worthies on the fourth side.
Photographer: B. Tomlinson

JSON

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters