Bolton-Upon-Dearne War Memorial

The Bolton-Upon-Dearne War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1925, designed by architect George Pennington, with inscribed panels created by sculptors Tyas and Guest from Swinton. It is constructed from sandstone, red brick, and red tiles.

The memorial features a rectangular inglenook fireplace with a hipped roof, which is built against the gable wall of a playground shelter, although the rest of the shelter has been demolished. The front elevation is made of ashlar sandstone and includes a wide, segmental-arched fireplace with chamfered stone voussoirs and jambs, along with ashlar quoin stones at the outer corners. The inner faces of the deep fireplace opening are faced in brick laid in English garden wall bond (5:1). Above the arch, there is a slightly projecting, square-cut mantel string that incorporates two moulded wooden corbels. Diagonal wooden brackets extend from the corbels to support the deeply overhanging eaves of the tiled hipped roof. Between the mantel string and the eaves is an ashlar mantelpiece.

In the center of the memorial, there are two slightly inset square stone panels separated by a stone mullion. A stone lintel above the panels is inscribed with the words "1914 IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE OLD BOYS OF THIS SCHOOL / WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1918." Each panel lists twenty names, with some surnames repeated. Additionally, five more names are inscribed on the mantel string. Flanking the panels are two small, unadorned relief crosses. Inside the fireplace, there is a square pedestal resembling a Roman altar, set on a plinth, with a square ashlar top that bears the inscription "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE."