War Memorial Near Junction of Doncaster Road and Clifton Lane
WAR MEMORIAL NEAR JUNCTION OF DONCASTER ROAD AND CLIFTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286762
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial Near Junction of Doncaster Road and Clifton Lane
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL NEAR JUNCTION OF DONCASTER ROAD AND CLIFTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286762
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial Near Junction of Doncaster Road and Clifton Lane
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAR MEMORIAL NEAR JUNCTION OF DONCASTER ROAD AND CLIFTON LANE
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL NEAR JUNCTION OF DONCASTER ROAD AND CLIFTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 43352 92909
Details
SK4392 ROTHERHAM CLIFTON PARK
10/32 War Memorial
near junction of
Doncaster Road and
Clifton Lane
II
War memorial. 1922 by Major J. E. Knight of Rotherham (Rotherham Advertiser).
Granite stylobate to ashlar sandstone monument. Large cenotaph with curtain
wall to rear. Plinth inscribed 'THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918 / AND / THE WORLD WAR
1939-1945'; on the shaft the quotation "IF I SHOULD DIE, THINK ONLY THIS OF ME:
THAT THERE'S SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD THAT IS FOR EVER ENGLAND". Shaft
decorated with wreaths and with a bronze sword on each return. Offset upper stage
with upright palm leaves carved on corners and the words 'FOR / REMEMBRANCE'
beneath a styalised sarcophagus with swags and cornice surmounted by a bronze
brazier with eternal flame. Curtain wall to rear with end piers flanking 13
bronze panels bearing dedication to, and names of, the 1304 men of Rotherham lost
in the 1914-1918 war. Unveiled on Sunday November 26th, 1922.
Details of design in: Rotherham Advertiser, March 19th, 1921, plO.
Listing NGR: SK4335292909
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.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335664
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Rotherham Advertiser in 19 March, (1921), 10
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 31 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/28030
War Memorials Online, accessed 31 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/225071
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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