St. James Cathedral Cross

Toronto, Ontario

Type

Other

On June 22, 1924, a Memorial Cross was unveiled at the west side of St. James Cathedral to commemorate the memory of the 46 members of the congregation who had fallen in the First World War. One hundred members of the 10^th Regiment Royal Grenadiers attended the unveiling ceremony, which was conducted by Colonel A.H. Borden. The memorial was unveiled by H.C. Scholfield and dedicated by Right Reverend Bishop William Day Reeve.

Designed by architects Sproatt & Rolph, it is imitative of the Eleanor Cross which King Edward I dedicated to his wife Eleanor of Castile in the 13^th century. Made from Indiana limestone, the Cross is Gothic in style, consisting of four piers that are square in plan and within the arches is a fan-vaulted ceiling carried out with intricate and delicately detailed tracery. The spire rises above this, embellished with flying buttresses, pinnacles and an open terrace design.

In 1924, Sproatt & Rolph also designed La Malbaie Memorial Cross Simcoe Carillon Tower and Soldiers' Tower.

Inscription

[front/devant]

ST. JAMES CATHEDRAL CROSS

THIS CROSS COMMEMORATES THE GLORIOUS SACRIFICE
OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1918,
AND APPEALS TO THOSE FOR WHOM THEY DIED
TO LAY ASIDE HATRED AND STRIFE AND TO SEEK BROTHERHOOD AND PEACE
UNDER THE SACRED BANNER OF CHRIST.

[right side/côté droit]

IN SACRED MEMORY OF
FRANK AMOR EDWARD S. BURFORD FRANCIS A. COOKSON
W. BEVERLEY CROWTHER S. LORNE CROWTHER BERTRAM DENISON
EDGAR DENISON GEORGE T. DENISON JOHN R. FENTON FREDERICK J. GOOCH
M. LOCKHART GORDON W.L. LOCKHART GORDON WILLIAM H. GREGORY
T. LESLIE HARLING MELVILLE HASTINGS ELMES HENDERSON

[back/arrière]

IN SACRED MEMORY OF
W.D.P. JARVIS A. DOUGLAS KIRKPATRICK NORMAN LAWLESS
HENRY V. LE MESURIER ARTHUR LEWIS ALFRED LIGHTWOOD
WILLIAM C. MACDONALD DUNCAN S. MACINNES CHARLES F. MCHENRY
JOHN R. MEREDITH ARTHUR MINOR ALFRED MOORE C. GORDON MORTIMER
CHARLES A. MOSS VICTOR NORDHELMER VICTOR J. NORTHCOTT

[left side/côté gauche]

IN SACRED MEMORY OF
ALBERT RIDDLESWORTH GEORGE C. RYERSON JOHN D.P. SCHOLFIELD
FRED W. SWEDEN JAMES B. STEPHENSON SAMUEL T. STOCKER
EDMUND R. STREET CLEMENT TYLER WILLIAM VERNON TRUMBULL WARREN
JAMES S. L. WELCH HARRY WESTERMAN FRED WILLIAMS HAROLD V. WRONG
J. HERBERT PORTER ARTHUR MCDONEL