War Memorial on South Side of Arboretum
WAR MEMORIAL ON SOUTH SIDE OF ARBORETUM, WAVERLEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270406
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial on South Side of Arboretum
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL ON SOUTH SIDE OF ARBORETUM, WAVERLEY STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-04-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/03458/22
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270406
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial on South Side of Arboretum
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAR MEMORIAL ON SOUTH SIDE OF ARBORETUM, WAVERLEY STREET
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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.
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:
- WAR MEMORIAL ON SOUTH SIDE OF ARBORETUM, WAVERLEY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 56822 40760
Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK54SE WAVERLEY STREET
646-1/4/693 (East side (off))
12/07/72 War Memorial on south side of
Arboretum
(Formerly Listed as:
ARBORETUM
War Memorial)
II
War memorial. Dated 1862-63. By M Ogle Tarbotton, Borough
Engineer. Ashlar. Rectangular platform, pink sandstone, approx
10m x 5m, on a stepped ashlar plinth. Inscriptions, partly
illegible, around the platform. At each corner, a cannon on a
stone base. In the centre of the platform, an octagonal cupola
in the Chinese style, with swept octagonal spire. Round
columns with traceried brackets, and inscriptions in Chinese
and Russian on the frieze.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the cupola originally contained a bell,
looted by British troops from a temple in Canton during the
Anglo-Chinese war of 1857-61. This was removed to the
regimental museum in 1956. 2 of the cannon were captured at
Sebastopol in 1854-55, during the Crimean war: 2 are replicas
c1862.
The memorial commemorates the involvement of the 59th/2nd
Nottinghamshire Regiment of Foot in these wars, and the
trophies were presented by Lt. Col. Burmester in 1857. The
memorial is unusual in commemorating two campaigns, and dates
from a period when the names of those killed were not
recorded.
(Nottingham Topic: April 1952: Nottingham: 1952-).
Listing NGR: SK5682240760
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, 24 January 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 459055
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Nottingham Topic in April, (1982)
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 24 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/27428
War Memorials Register, accessed 24 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/27429
War Memorials Online, accessed 24 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/96781
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 33 Nottinghamshire,
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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