Building record 5570 - Bollington War Memorial

<1> Cheshire East Council, 2010, Cheshire East LDF Local List of Historic Buildings (Report). SCH5404.

A sandstone cross set in memorial gardens, erected in 1920. On the base of the cross are inscribed the names of Bollington men who died in both the First and Second World Wars.

<2> Historic England, From 2015, Notification of inclusion, amendment or removal from the List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, Ellis V, 29/02/2016 (Written Communication). SCH7787.

First World War memorial unveiled on 28 November. The designer/sculptor unknown and it is constructed of local red and buff sandstone and taking the form of an elaborately carved Celtic wheel-head cross set on a tapering, rectangular plinth atop 5 steps. Figures of the patron saints of the home nations are carved on the cross arms, and the cross head is adorned with a carved tiled roof. Underneath the main inscription is a stone sculpture of a laurel wreath resting on the top step. The top two steps are of the same red sandstone as the cross, the lower three of buff sandstone. The memorial stands within its own war memorial garden at a prominent road junction and has additions for the Second World War.

<3> Historic England, 2011, The National Heritage List for England, 1432274 (Web Site). SCH6528.