Walton Memorial Circa 10 Metres South-West Of Town Hall

The Walton Memorial, located about 10 metres south-west of the Town Hall, is a memorial to William Walton, erected around 1906 by stonemason R Swinburne. Made of sandstone ashlar, the memorial features an Art Nouveau design. It consists of the base of a fluted obelisk supported by four central leaf-decorated scrolls, with the tapering obelisk being an early 21st-century replacement. The memorial stands on a high corniced and panelled pedestal that includes a moulded plinth and scrolled, foliate diagonal corner buttresses. Each diagonal buttress ends in an impost moulding with arched recessed panels. The south side of the memorial bears an inscription in Gothic sans serif and Roman scripts, which reads: ERECTED / BY THE / OFFICIALS AND WORKMEN / OF THE DEAN AND CHAPTER COLLIERY / To the Memory / OF THE LATE/ WILLIAM WALTON / (OVERMAN) / WHO SACRIFICED HIS LIFE / IN SAVING THE LIVES / OF TWO BOYS / AT DEAN BANK / AUGUST 8TH 1906.