With the increasing popularity of Great Malvern as a spa town in the first half of the 19th Century, hotels and large houses were built to accomodate the visitors taking the water. In 1860 the Great Western Railway station was opened and the company built the grandest of these hotels, the Imperial. A tree lined road was built between the station and the town, and was named Avenue Road.
By 1865 farmland below the railway had been sold for the development of cheaper housing. A temporary church was erected next to Mill Lane School (now Malvern Parish School) in 1866, but it quickly became apparent that a permanent structure was needed. So, in 1873 Lady Foley, the lady of the manor, donated a piece of land on Avenue Road for the builing a new church which would chiefly serve the working classes – including many of those in service at the large houses and hotels in the area.
The church, designed by Barry & Sons of Liverpool to seat 700 people was built at a cost of around £9000. It was consecrated on the 28th December 1875 by the Bishop of Worcester. By the First World War the parish was one of the largest in Malvern with many imposing Victorian properties, as well as the shops and businesses at Barnards Green and many smaller houses. St Andrews, Poolbrook was a daughter church to Christ Church at the time.
Location
Avenue Road, Malvern, Worcestershire WR14 3AY, UK
The Memorial
The memorial, which is located on the wall of the north aisle, was made by the Bromsgrove Guild in white marble with an alabaster surround; it was completed in December 1921.
WW1 Memorial
| William Bertrum BENNET | Devonshire Regiment |
| James Henry BOUCHER | Royal Army Medical Corps |
| Thomas BOWLEY | Royal Engineers |
| William BRIDGE | Royal Navy |
| Frederick Edward BRUTON | Worcestershire Regiment |
| William Frederick Handley BUTT | Royal Berkshire Regiment |
| William Richardson CLEMENTS | Royal Sussex Regiment |
| Percy William COOPER | Middlesex Regiment |
| Richard DANCE | Worcestershire Regiment |
| Edward Walter DASH | Worcestershire Regiment |
| Herbert Ellis DAVISON | Worcestershire Regiment |
| Alfred Samuel FOSTER | Worcestershire Regiment |
| Arthur Edgecombe GILLAM | Army Service Corps |
| John Herbert GOODYEAR | Worcestershire Regiment |
| Walter Henry HALE | Worcestershire Regiment |
| Francis Joseph HARRISON | Royal Field Artillery |
| John HICKS | Worcestershire Regiment |
| Charles Willoughby HOBBS | Notts & Derby Regiment |
| William Gardner JEYNES | Kings Royal Rifle Corps |
| Daniel James JONES | Royal Warwickshire Regiment |
| William JONES | Worcestershire Regiment |
| Arthur Edwin KYTE | Gloucestershire Regiment |
| Fred T LLOYD | Royal Naval Division |
| Frederick George NASH | Worcestershire Regiment |
| William Edward OSBORNE | Coldstream Guards |
| Harold James PARKER | Worcestershire Regiment |
| Ralph PRITCHARD | Worcestershire Regiment |
| William Alfred RENDELL | Somerset Light Infantry |
| Herbert James RODWAY | Gloucestershire Regiment |
| Reginald ROUSE | Royal Warwickshire Regiment |
| George Ernest SMITH | Royal Army Medical Corps |
| John SORRELL | Worcestershire Regiment |
| Jesse SPRAGG | Worcestershire Regiment |
| Horace SUDLOW | Worcestershire Regiment |
| John Henry TANDY | Essex Regiment |
| Frank Percy TATE | Royal Garrison Artillery |
| Victor Herbert THOMSON | Royal Warwickshire Regiment |
| Martin George TIMMINS | South Staffordshire Regiment |
| Walter John TIPTON | Worcestershire Regiment |
| Charles Frederick WALFORD | Worcestershire Yeomanry |
| Victor William WEBB | London Regiment |
| William John WHITTLE | Worcestershire Regiment |
| Edward Wilson WILKINSON | West Riding Regiment |
| Kenneth C WILLIAMS | Royal Field Artillery |
| Francis Cornwall WILLIAMSON | Australian Engineers |
| Harry Martin WINDSOR | 112nd Regiment of Engineers, US Army |
