Memorial Details
What type of memorial is it?
Window
How would you describe the memorial and its ornamentation?
Stained glass window (a detailed description of which is not yet held by IWM).
Location
Has this memorial been lost?
Yes
Location
Location
Is this the memorial's current location?
No
Building Name
Felsted School Chapel
Street
Stebbing Road
Town
Felsted
District
Uttlesford
County
Essex
Country
England
Postcode
CM6 3JD
OS map ref
TL 67778 20514
If the memorial has been moved, please indicate why
The window was not found by the Essex Society for Family History Society when they conducted a survey of all the memorials in the School's Chapel in June 2001. (Felsted School's website mentions that some of the School's other war memorial windows were demolished when the Chapel was restored/extended in the early 1960s; perhaps this window was another such case?).

Lieutenant W R P Hamilton VC (LOST) Location

Commemoration
What words are inscribed on the memorial?
(Details of the inscription are currently unknown; all that is known is that the window commemorated Lieutenant Walter Richard Pollock Hamilton VC).
War
How many names are listed in total?
1
Which war or group does the memorial commemorate?
First and Second Anglo-Afghan Wars (1839-1842 and 1878-1880)
Is the total an exact count?
Yes
Of the names listed, how many served and returned?
0
Of the names listed, how many died?
1
What information is listed for those commemorated?
Unknown
Condition
What is the memorial's maintenance history?
Felsted School's 450 year Souvenir booklet mentioned on page 20, in its paragraph re Lieutenant Walter Richard Pollock Hamilton VC, that 'Felstedians donated to provide the School Chapel with a stained glass memorial window in his memory'. (No further details of the window were given in that publication). When the Essex Society for Family History surveyed the memorials within Felsted School's Chapel in June 2001 they did not find/record any such window in that building. Felsted School's webpage re their war memorials (https://archives.felsted.essex.sch.uk/of/warmem/index.php) does not mention this window, but does state of other memorial windows in the Chapel that they were demolished/destroyed 'during the redevelopment of the Chapel in 1964'. Perhaps the memorial window re Lieutenant Hamilton VC was therefore another such case?
Components
Component Details
Which memorial component are you recording?
Window
What condition is this component in?
Lost
What materials has this component been constructed from?
Stained Glass
Listing Information
Does it have listed status?
No
History
References
References
https://issuu.com/felsted/docs/felsted_450_souvenir_brochure (page 20 mentions of Lieutenant Hamilton that 'Felstedians donated to provide the School Chapel with a stained glass memorial window in his memory'.
Felsted School's webpage re their war memorials omits any mention of this window, but does state that other memorial windows were demolished/destroyed during the refurbishment of the School's Chapel in the early 1960s.
https://archives.felsted.essex.sch.uk/of/warmem/index.php
Essex Society for Family History: Monumental Inscriptions at Felsted School Chapel; survey completed June 2001. This survey report did include the stone memorial in the Chapel commemorating the School's two Victoria Cross recipients, Lieutenant Walter Richard Pollock Hamilton and John Leslie Green (to which our record 97282 refers)), but omitted any mention of the presence of a memorial window to Lieutenant Hamilton. This implies that the window was no longer in situ by that time.