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 After the service, over 300 people had tea in the Central Hall of the Rothwell Haigh Board School. The Rev Miller did a special service in the evening, as well as the Sunday morning. The Archdeacon Maude did a service on the Sunday evening. The offertory for Sunday was £9 18s (~£773.90 in 2017).<ref name="1898 RT" />
-On 10th August 1903, the vicar of St Andrew's, Rev. Reginald Pattinson, was married to Edith Richards (daughter of Edward Richards, the manager of Leeds Steel Works) in the church. The service was conducted by the Bishop of Ripon; the brother-in-law of the groom, Rev. H. W. Campbell Baugh of Trinity, Richmond Park, Liverpool; and the Rev. G. H. Clark, Pattinson's predecessor at St Andrew's. There was a large congregation and hundreds of people outside to witness the arrival and departure of the wedding party.<ref>(The Rothwell Times, 2003)</ref>
+On 10th August 1903, the vicar of St Andrew's, Rev. Reginald Pattinson, was married to Edith Richards (daughter of Edward Richards, the manager of Leeds Steel Works) in the church. The service was conducted by the Bishop of Ripon; the brother-in-law of the groom, Rev. H. W. Campbell Baugh, vicar of Trinity, Richmond Park, Liverpool; and the Rev. G. H. Clark, Pattinson's predecessor at St Andrew's. There was a large congregation and hundreds of people outside to witness the arrival and departure of the wedding party.<ref>(The Rothwell Times, 2003)</ref>
 The [[Church of St Andrew#War memorial|Stourton War Memorial]] was unveiled in the grounds of the church on the 6th August 1921 by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lascelles%2C_6th_Earl_of_Harewood Viscount Lascelles]. There was a large crowd, including ex-Servicemen, the relatives of the fallen men and the 11th S.E. Troop of Boy Scouts. Viscount Lascelles said, before he unveiled the memorial, that Stourton was right to unveil its memorial later than other parishes as it "avoided the risk of the ceremony being in any sense regarded from the point of view of a triumph over a fallen enemy" and said that when "people looked at the memorial they would be inspired by something of the spirit which those men undoubtedly possessed, and which enabled them to make the greatest sacrifice that they could pay." The Vicar of Leeds, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Heywood Rev. Bernard O. F. Heywood], dedicated the memorial, then the band of the 7th Leeds Rifles played Chopin's ''Funeral March'', the buglers played the the ''Last Post'', and finally an ex-serviceman placed a wreath on behalf of the Stourton Branch of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Union_of_Ex-Service_Men National Union of Ex-Service Men].<ref name="WM">(Skyrack Courier, 1921)</ref>
-[[File:Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intel 09 January 1950 0006.jpg|thumb|right|200px|alt=An image of five children, one girl dressed as an angel and 3 boys and a girl sat on a pew, staring at a lamb in the asile of the Church of St Andrew.|A lamb in the 1950 St Andrew's nativity.]]On 8th January 1950, the Church of St Andrew held a nativity service that was packed owing to the use of a live lamb. The lamb was mostly well-behaved. The Vicar, Rev C. O. Kennedy, told a Yorkshire Post reported that it was the idea of Mr. H Quarmby, who played the shepherd in the nativity. The real shepherd, Mr. A Ellison, who worked for G Thompson of Old Hall Farm in Gargrave, watched the service and told the reporter of how he had found the lamb almost dead on Christmas Day.<ref>(The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, 1950)</ref>
+[[File:Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intel 09 January 1950 0006.jpg|thumb|right|200px|alt=An image of five children, one girl dressed as an angel and 3 boys and a girl sat on a pew, staring at a lamb in the asile of the Church of St Andrew.|A lamb in the 1950 St Andrew's nativity.]]On 8th January 1950, the Church of St Andrew held a nativity service that was packed owing to the use of a live lamb. The lamb was mostly well-behaved. The Vicar, Rev C. O. Kennedy, told a Yorkshire Post reporter that it was the idea of Mr. H Quarmby, who played the shepherd in the nativity. The real shepherd, Mr. A Ellison, who worked for G Thompson of Old Hall Farm in Gargrave, watched the service and told the reporter of how he had found the lamb almost dead on Christmas Day.<ref>(The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, 1950)</ref>
 [[File:Site of the former St Andrew's war memorial, Stourton - geograph.org.uk - 6221896.jpg|thumb|left|alt=An overgrown patch of land with many fairly young trees growing. A road with a red gate and large concrete blocks is visible in front of the land.|The site of the church in 2019.]]