Smooth cut, plain crusader style cross on tapering rectangular plinth set on three stepped square base, constructed from limestone. Lead in relief inscription is set on the front of the plinth and lower portion of the shaft. Set within chained off enclosure in a garden of rest set between two streams at the centre of the village. (1)
First World War memorial, unveiled and dedicated in 1920, with Second World War and later addi-tions. It was designed and constructed by R Thompson of Ollerton.
Of Hopton Wood limestone, it stands at the centre of a triangular-shaped memorial garden
which is bounded by Main Street /Newark Road on the south-west, the River Maun to the north-west and the mill race to Ollerton watermill to the east. The memorial, which stands some 3.5m high, takes the form of a Crusader cross which rises from a tall, tapering, rectangular shaft. The shaft stands on a deep, trapezoidal plinth, rectangular on plan, which in turn sits on a square, three-step base. The whole stands on a concrete foundation. The principal dedicatory inscription is in leaded lettering on the lower section of the shaft's south-west (front) face and reads 'ERECTED / BY THE INHABITANTS / OF OLLE RTON, / TO THE GLORY OF GOD, / AND IN GRATEFUL / MEMORY OF THOSE / W HO GAVE THEIR LIVES / FOR THEIR COUNTRY / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 - 1918.' On the plinth below are the names of the 16 men who died in this conflict along with the names of a further 15 men who died during the Second World War. Placed on the second step of the base is a mid-C20 memorial flower vase inscribed 'IN MEMORY OF / TERENCE ARTHUR / GILLOTT / DIED ON ACTIVE / SERVICE IN CYPRUS / AUG. 28TH 1956 / AGED 21 YEARS'. On the step below is a late-C20 stone memorial tablet inscribed 'IN MEMORY OF / CORPORAL STEPHEN RUSSELL McCONIGLE / KILLED ON ACTIVE SERVICE IN NORTHERN IRELAND / ON 4TH MAY 1989, AGED 30.' (2)

<1> Taylor W, 2012, War Memorials survey (Unknown). SNT2596.

<2> DOE, Listed Building Description (Published document). SNT228.