Monument to Thomas Wiley 50 metres east of Woodland View

Commemorative monument, 1853 to the design of an unknown artist for the Sheffield and Rotherham Licensed Victuallers Association. Re-sited in 1879 after the almshouses with which it is associated were rebuilt in a new location.

MATERIALS: sandstone ashlar.

DESCRIPTION Not inspected, information from other sources. The memorial stands in front of the Licensed Victualler’s Almshouses in line with the central hall. It is designed in a Gothic Revival style as a square tower with a crowning spire. The high base has a plinth and crenelated parapet, with angle buttresses and four moulded arched panels.

The panel facing east towards the road has the inscription: THIS MONUMENT / WAS ERECTED TO THE MEMORY / OF THE LATE / ALDERMAN THOMAS WILEY, / BY THE VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS OF THE / MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF THE SHEFFIELD / AND ROTHERHAM LICENSED VICTUALLERS / ASSOCIATION, TO RECORD THEIR RESPECT AND / ESTEEM FOR HIS MUNIFICENT DONATIONS TO / THEIR ASYLUM, HE BEING THE FIRST DONOR TO / THIS INSTITUTION AND BY HIS SPIRITED / EXAMPLE CAUSING A NUMBER OF LIBERAL / AND BENEVOLENT GENTLEMEN TO SUBSCRIBE / SUFFICIENT FUNDS TO ERECT THE / ADJACENT BUILDINGS. / ANNO DOMINI 1853 / THIS MONUMENT WAS REMOVED FROM THE / OLD INSTITUTION AT GRIMESTHORPE TO ITS / PRESENT SITE ON THE COMPLETION OF / THESE BUILDINGS 1879.

Above is a smaller pedestal with diagonal buttresses topped by crocketed spires with four arched panels with hood moulds. Set back is a tall, octagonal spire with a crocketed finial.