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Holy Rood Church, in the High Street, is now itself a memorial to the Merchant Navy, but also contains other memorials:

Two memorials to 22 people who died trying to put out a fire in the parish in 1837:

Tablet commemorating the people who died trying to put out a fire in the parish in 1837

Photograph by Caroline Andrews, 2016

List of people who died trying to put out the fire

Photograph by Caroline Andrews, 2016

A tablet in memory of Sir Frederick Perkins and Richard Hopkins Perkins. Sir Frederick restored the quarterjacks in 1897.

Memorial to Sir Frederick and Richard Hopkins Perkins

Photograph by Caroline Andrews, 2016

Drinking fountain commemmorating the crew of the Titanic:

Tablet commemorating the crew of the Titanic

Photograph by Caroline Andrews, 2016

Drinking fountain commemorating the crew of the Titanic

Photograph by Caroline Andrews, 2016

Ship on the Titanic memorial

Photograph by Caroline Andrews, 2016

A memorial to Charles Partridge, a Merchant Navy sailor who is buried in the war cemetery on Orkney:

Memorial to Charles Partridge

Photograph by Caroline Andrews, 2016

A tablet commemmorating the service of the Merchant Navy in the Falklands War:

Tablet commemmorating the service of the Merchant Navy in the Falklands War

Photograph by Caroline Andrews, 2016

A memorial to Sidney Raymond Mattingley, another Merchant Navy sailor who died in 2003 (image ).

Memorial to Sidney Rayond Mattingley, 2003

Photograph by Caroline Andrews, 2016

Further reading:

Southampton’s Holy Rood: The Church of the Sailors, by Andy Russel et al. (HS/j)

Links:

Documentary about Holy Rood Church, produced by members of Southampton Video Camera Club in 2013.
Blog post about the church, by Lesley and Roy Adkins, 2014.

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