Description

SE 61 SW
6/72

STAINFORTH
CHURCH ROAD
(west side, off)
War memorial immediately to east of chapel at Stainforth Cemetery

II

War memorial. c1920. Sculptors: Tyas and Guest of Swinton, near Rotherham.
Ashlar sandstone. Square enclosure with kerb and corner vases; at its centre
the monument with a 3-step plinth to a stylised, square Doric column
surmounted by a lifesize statue. Column base has re-entrant corners and
fasces decoration and an anchor and lifebelt carved in a recessed panel on
the front. Names of the dead of 1914-18 are inscribed on the front of the
shaft, those of 1939-45 added on rear and left return. The well-carved
statue is of an infantryman with gun and fixed bayonet facing to his left in
front of a broken tree stump.

Listing NGR: SE6422511397

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.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26487440

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)