Sherburn Hill War Memorial

The red granite memorial stands on Front Street, outside the Community Centre (formerly the Miners’ Institute). It takes the form of an obelisk, square on plan, rising from the corniced top of a pedestal. The pedestal stands on a four-stage base of which the uppermost stage is also red granite, whilst the others are a different stone. The whole is raised on a platform and enclosed by low round-headed railings.

The commemorated First World War names are listed on the faces of the pedestal. On the front face of the base’s uppermost stage the principal dedicatory inscription reads TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN PROUD MEMORY/ OF THE MEN WHO LEFT SHERBURN HILL/ AND MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE/ GREAT EUROPEAN WAR 1914 –1918./ ERECTED BY THE INHABITANTS OF/ SHERBURN HILL.

On a red granite panel let into the riser of the stage below, the later dedication reads ALSO WORLD WAR 1939-1945/ (NAMES). This list of names is continued on a similar panel on the stage below, followed by the quotation "THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD/ AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN/ AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING/ WE WILL REMEMBER THEM" taken from the poem ‘For The Fallen’ by Laurence Binyon.

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 7 February 2017.

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 07/03/2017