Stainforth

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Reference WMO/189108

Address:

The Cemetery

Church Road

Stainforth

Doncaster

DN7 5AD

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Serviceman/woman sculpture
Materials:
  • Stone Sandstone
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Designed by Tyas of Swinton. It represents an ordinary British Infantryman standing at Bayonet fixed. Made of York Stone standing at a height of 21 feet. Unveiled in 1919. War memorial 6/72 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. c Historic Engand listing entry
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Grade II (England)

1192765

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