A Mission Church serving the Basford district of Hartshill parish was opened in Bedford Street

(now Sackville Street) in 1877. It was replaced by the present St Marks Church in Basford Park Road
in 1915 and a new parish of Basford was created out of Hartshill and Wolstanton. Several names
appear on both the Hartshill Memorial and the one in St Marks Church, John Averill; Archibald
Braithwaite and John Sturge all lived at addresses on the north side of Shelton New Road, which
came within the new parish of Basford. John Brooksbank of Basford Park; Robert Downs, whose
mother later lived in Stoke Old Road and William Rowe of Clarence (Clare) Street, are also recorded
on both Memorials. John Brooksbank is buried in Hartshill Cemetery as are William Bigham,
Archie Bourne, both of Temple (Hayden) Street, John Kennerley Platt of Oxford Road, whose
family owned the Harpfield Tileries and John Edward Taylor of Gladstone Street.
The Memorial was dedicated on Saturday 12 November 1921. It is of Sicilian Marble, with a stone
framework of Hollington stone, designed by Austin and Paley of Lancaster, the architects of the
Church and made by Robert Bridgeman and Sons of Lichfield. The associated Memorial East window
is by Shrigley and Hunt of London and Lancaster.
There are 78 names listed, some of which also commemorated on the Wolstanton War Memorial.