Angel War Memorial

The Angel War Memorial is a First World War memorial dating from 1923, designed by the stone mason A E Walters. It is constructed of white marble and stands on Frodingham Road.

The memorial features an angel with spread wings, head bowed, pointing to the sky with its right hand and holding a laurel wreath in its left. The angel stands upon a square pedestal. The front face bears a relief carving including a flag and shield, surrounded by laurel leaves, framing the inscription "THE LAST DESPATCH – DUTY DONE, VICTORY WON, NOW FOR PEACE EVERY ONE CARRY ON”. The mason's name, A E Walters, is inscribed on the plinth.

In 1925, Alfred Garrett added inscriptions to the other sides of the memorial. The right-hand side lists the names of Richard Davison, Ernest Hornsby, George Hudson, William Langton, Walter Martin, Jack Rimmington, Wilfred Short, and John Robinson, along with a quotation from Horace, "Dolce et decorum pro patria mort / Sic itur ad astra". The rear face lists the names of numerous other individuals. The left-hand side details how schoolboys collected waste materials throughout the district to purchase War Savings Certificates, which were in 1923 converted into funds to erect the memorial as a tribute to the fallen from the school and parish. It also includes a quotation and acknowledgement of the headmaster, G Taylor, “HIS UNWEARIED LABOURS HIS LIFETIME OF PURPOSE INSPIRED HIS PUPILS TO ERECT THIS MEMORIAL.”

The memorial is of group value and is considered particularly notable for the detailed inscriptions and the method by which funds for its construction were raised.