Crompton War Memorial
Crompton War Memorial
Crompton War Memorial
Crompton War Memorial
Crompton War Memorial
Crompton War Memorial
Crompton War Memorial
Crompton War Memorial
Crompton War Memorial
Crompton War Memorial
Crompton War Memorial
Crompton War Memorial
Crompton War Memorial
Crompton War Memorial
Crompton War Memorial
Crompton War Memorial
Crompton War Memorial
Crompton War Memorial
Crompton War Memorial
Crompton War Memorial
Crompton War Memorial
Crompton War Memorial

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A bronze group on top of a four-stepped Aberdeen granite pedestal and two-stepped Aberdeen granite plinth. Additional half-steps at the two sides make the bronze relief name plaques easily accessible. The large bronze sculpture depicts an athletic male warrior leaning forward, plunging a sword, held in his right hand, into the jaws of one of two heavily muscular beasts at his feet. He wears a loin cloth and a form of cape attached around his shoulders and billowing behind. The beasts are dog-like, with exaggerated bone and muscular structures, sharp-clawed feet and sabre-like teeth. The warrior is defending a clutch of small children, also wearing loin cloths. Two stand on his right side, three on his left, and one behind, in varied poses. He holds the hand of one of the children with his left hand.

Title

Crompton War Memorial

Date

1923

Medium

bronze & Aberdeen granite

Accession number

OL2_JD_S018

Acquisition method

purchased by public subscription

Work type

War memorial

Owner

Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council

Custodian

Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council

Work status

extant

Listing status

Grade II* (England and Wales)

Unveiling date

29th April 1923

Listing date

06/10/87

Access

at all times

Signature/marks description

on left side of base, by figure’s right foot: R R GOULDEN SCULP

Inscription description

front (south) face: IN MEMORY OF MEN OF CROMPTON / WHO FOUGHT AND GAVE THEIR / LIVES TO FREE MANKIND FROM / THE OPPRESSION AND BRUTAL / TYRANNY OF WAR / 1914 1919 / 1939 1945; on tall rectangular panels on pedestal sides: (346 names); bronze panel on rear face: TO THE HONOUR AND GLORY OF THE MEN WHO LOST / THEIR LIVES 1939 – 1945 / (76 names).

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Located at

High Street, Shaw

OL2 8RF

Stands in public gardens on the north side of Shaw and Crompton High Street.