Memorial

Crosby Angel, Scunthorpe

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Source: Copyright Patricia Smith

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Current Location

Corner of Sheffield Road West & Frodingham Road., Crosby Angel, Frodingham Road, Scunthorpe, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, DN15 7NL, England

SE 89098 11780

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Type of Memorial: Sculptured / Cast figure
WMR Reference Number: 35698
Description: ANGEL WITH OUTSPREAD WINGS, STANDING ON SQUARE PEDESTAL, HEAD BOWED LAUREL WREATH HELD IN THE LEFT HAND OF THE ANGEL
Inscription: Face 1: THE ROLL OF HONOUR/ IN BEAUTY OF YOUTH, SERENE/ THEY STEPPED FROM THE SCHOOL TO THE/ BATTLE SCENE./ (Names)/ 113 OLD BOYS JOINED HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES/ 1914 - 1918/ DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI/ SIC ITUR AD ASTRA/ ALFRED GARRETT/ Face 2: OUR FATHERS/ THEY HEARD THE CALL AND RUSHED TO FALL/ A SACRIFICE FOR ALL/ (Names)/ Face 3: "THE LAST DISPATCH"/ DUTY DONE,/ VICTORY WON,/ NOW FOR PEACE,/ EVERY ONE/ CARRY ON./ Face 4: DURING THE GREAT WAR THE SCHOOL BOYS COLLECTED/ WASTE MATERIALS ALL OVER THE DISTRICT, AND WITH/ THE MONEY REALIZED THEREON, BOUGHT WAR SAVINGS/ CERTIFICATES, WHICH IN 1923 WERE CONVERTED INTO/ THIS MONUMENT AS A HUMBLE TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY/ OF THE OLD BOYS OF THIS SCHOOL, AND OF ALL FROM/ THIS PARISH WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIFE DURING THE/ WAR/ G. TAYLOR (INTER C.A. LOND) HEAD MASTER/ "HIS UNWEARIED LABOURS, HIS LIFETIME/ OF PURPOSE INSPIRED HIS PUPILS TO ERECT/ THIS MEMORIAL"

Maker(s): MESSRS A E WALTERS, Mason
Maintenance History: Grade II Listed. 2010: Renovated by local stonemasons Barningham's. The renovation was paid for from funds raised from the sale of a book detailing the biographies of all the names inscribed, published in October 2008 by the Friends of the Crosby Angel. North Lincolnshire Council, who own the land on which the memorial stands, also donated a grant. 1987: STATUE REPAIRED AT COST OF £500

Dedicated

19th May 1923

Local Clergy/Dignitaries

Rededicated