Sculpture on former Queen's Hotel, Barnsley, West Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade II listed building, designed by Wade & Turner, and completed in 1874. The stone carving was executed by Benjamin Payler. As of 2017 the building had been converted to offices.
This is part of a set of three label stop heads by the same sculptor, on the adjacent building in Regent Street. The lower framing on the right-hand head implies a connection with the framing of the keystone heads on the Queen's Hotel. On the left, a bumptious young man-about-town is apparently making cheeky overtures to a woman above his class on the right, but she is frowning and seems to be rejecting him. Between them is Old Father Time, looking on; this has happened before in the world.
However this set is not so simple, and there is more than one possible interpretation. The woman on the right is recognisable as Catherine Mawer in her fifties, when she had employed Payler as an apprentice in the 1850s. So the young man on the left could possibly be identified as a mature and successful Payler in the 1870s, perhaps still attempting to please his unsatisfied master with his latest work on the Queen's Hotel.
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