Maiwand Memorial
MAIWAND MEMORIAL, FORBURY GARDENS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1155769
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Maiwand Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- MAIWAND MEMORIAL, FORBURY GARDENS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1155769
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Maiwand Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAIWAND MEMORIAL, FORBURY GARDENS
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MAIWAND MEMORIAL, FORBURY GARDENS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Reading (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 71836 73614
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27/01/2012
SU 7173 NE 1/485
5128
FORBURY GARDENS
Maiwand Memorial
II
1886. Sculptor George Simmonds. (son of George Simmonds of Simmonds Brewery). Casters Young and Co, Pimlico; terracotta pedestal Wheeler Bros. Kilns, soley supervised by the sculptor. 3 times life size cast iron statue of an enraged lion courant weighing 16 tons. Rectangular pilastered plinth records the names of the dead. Tablet to south-west inscribed "This monument records the names and commemorates the valour and devotion of xi officers and cccxviii non-commissioned officers and men of the lxvi Berkshire Regiment who gave their lives for their country at Girisk, Maiwand and Kandahar during the Afghan campaign 1879-80 'History does not afford any grander or finer instance of gallantry and devotion to Queen and Country than that displayed by the lxvi Regiment at the battle of Maiwand on the 27 July 1880' - Dispatch of General Primrose". Erected by public subscription.
Listing NGR: SU7183673614
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 20 July 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38938
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 20 July 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/7812
War Memorials Online, accessed 20 July 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/187164
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 3 Berkshire,
Legal
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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