Bolton-Upon-Dearne War Memorial

First World War Memorial. 1925 to a design by architect George Pennington incorporating inscribed panels by sculptors Tyas and Guest of Swinton. Sandstone, red brick, red tiles.

PLAN: rectangular inglenook fireplace with hipped roof built against gable wall of playground shelter (rest of shelter now demolished).

DESCRIPTION: the front elevation of the memorial is constructed of ashlar sandstone with a wide, segmental-arched fireplace with chamfered stone voussoirs and jambs, and ashlar quoin stones to the outer corners. The inner faces of the deep fireplace aperture are faced in brick laid in English garden wall bond (5:1). Above the arch is a slightly-projecting, square-cut mantel string incorporating two moulded wooden corbels. Diagonal wooden brackets rise from the corbels to support the deeply overhanging eaves of a tiled, hipped roof. Between the mantel string and eaves is an ashlar mantelpiece. In the centre are two slightly-inset square stone panels separated by a stone mullion. A stone lintel is inscribed 1914 IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE OLD BOYS OF THIS SCHOOL / WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1918. Each panel is inscribed with twenty names, a number bearing the same surnames. Five further names are inscribed on the mantel string. Flanking the panels are two small, unadorned, relief crosses. Within the fireplace is a square pedestal, analogous to a Roman altar, set on a plinth, with a square, ashlar top inscribed round the edge THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE.

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, 31 January 2017.