Indian Mutiny Perthshire Volunteers Monument

INDIAN MUTINY PERTHSHIRE VOLUNTEERS MONUMENT, PEMBROKE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1103859
Date first listed:
25-Sept-1972
List Entry Name:
Indian Mutiny Perthshire Volunteers Monument
Statutory Address:
INDIAN MUTINY PERTHSHIRE VOLUNTEERS MONUMENT, PEMBROKE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1103859
Date first listed:
25-Sept-1972
List Entry Name:
Indian Mutiny Perthshire Volunteers Monument
Statutory Address 1:
INDIAN MUTINY PERTHSHIRE VOLUNTEERS MONUMENT, PEMBROKE ROAD

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:
INDIAN MUTINY PERTHSHIRE VOLUNTEERS MONUMENT, PEMBROKE ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
City of Portsmouth (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SZ 63614 99137

Details

PORTSMOUTH

SZ6399 PEMBROKE ROAD 774-1/12/79 (North East side) 25/09/72 Indian Mutiny Perthshire Volunteers Monument

II

Monument. c1869. Marble obelisk with plinth, granite curb surrounding base with earth end planted filling. Commemorates the members of the 90th Light Infantry Perthshire Volunteers who were killed in the Indian Mutiny of 1857 or died in India between 1859 and 1869. Inscription reads "In memory of Officers (named) and 312 non-commissioned officers, buglers and privates of the 90th Light Infantry Perthshire Volunteers who fell during the mutiny in India in the defence, the relief, the capture of Lucknow and in the subsequent operations to the end of the war, 1859 - also to the memory of other officers who died during the service of the 90th Light Infantry in India from the end of the war, 1859 to 1869". (Berridge DW: Monument and Memorials in the City of Portsmouth: 1984-: 9).



Listing NGR: SZ6334899296

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Berridge, D W, Monuments and Memorials in the City of Portsmouth, (1984), 9

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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