Memorials and Monuments in St Ann's Church, Portsmouth (East Window)

Location
At the East End of the Chancel. The tablets relating to the East Window are on the North wall of the Chancel.

Memorial (Window)
The Memorial to Workers and Sailors of Portsmouth Dockyard

Memorial (Tablets)
Tablets accompanying the East Window Memorial

Inscription (Upper Tablet)

THE EAST END WINDOW OF THIS CHURCH, WHICH AT
THAT TIME FORMED A MEMORIAL TO THE OFFICERS AND
RATINGS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES WHILE SERVING IN
H.M.SHIPS ATALANTA AND EURYDICE
WAS DESTROYED ON THE NIGHT OF 3RD MAY 1941
DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
FRAGMENTS OF IT SINCE RECOVERED HAVE BEEN REASSEMBLED AND PLACED IN A WINDOW IN THE NORTH WALL OF THIS CHURCH THE PRESENT WINDOW WAS ERECTED IN IT'S PLACE BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION AND IS GRATEFULLY AND HUMBLY DEDICATED TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN ETERNAL MEMORY OF THOSE WHO
WORKED IN OR SAILED FROM THIS DOCKYARD
AND WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES THAT THE INHABITANTS
OF OUR ISLAND AND EMPIRE MAY IN PEACE
AND QUIETNESS SERVE HIM
1939 - 1945

Inscription (Lower Tablet)

THE EAST END WINDOW
DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY
MR HUGH EASTON
WAS UNVEILED BY
ADMIRAL LORD FRASER
OF
NORTH CAPE G.C.B. K.B.E. D.C.L.
AND
VICE ADMIRAL LV MORGAN C.B. C.B.E. M.V.O. D.S.O.
ADMIRAL SUPERINTENDANT
ON SUNDAY 19TH OCTOBER 1947

Further Information
[Extract from 'St Ann's Church, A Brief History' courtesy of Wendy Smith]

"The window is a unique picture of the dockyard as it appeared just after VE Day in August 1945 and (Hugh) Easton's trademark signature can be seen at the bottom of the clear glass on the right hand side. In the order of service for the unveiling and dedication........Hugh Easton provided a description of its theme:

The stained and painted glass of the window represents the Resurrected and Ascended Christ, triumphant, and with His right hand raised in traditional blessing upon the Dockyard, which stretches out below in all its impressive dignity. Our Lord is shown beardless, ever young, wise and supreme - in fact in Tennyson's words the 'strong Son of God, immortal Love'. Beyond the vast area of buildings, cranes, ships and docks can be seen H.M.S. Vanguard, an aircraft carrier and almost every type of ship and appropriately, in the centre of the Dockyard is H.M.S. Victory."

See also the memorial in The North Window

St Ann's Church- The East Window -

St Ann's Church
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