Monument in Victoria Gardens

MONUMENT IN VICTORIA GARDENS, FORE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1329249
Date first listed:
22-Nov-1982
Statutory Address:
MONUMENT IN VICTORIA GARDENS, FORE STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1329249
Date first listed:
22-Nov-1982
Statutory Address 1:
MONUMENT IN VICTORIA GARDENS, FORE STREET

Location

Statutory Address:
MONUMENT IN VICTORIA GARDENS, FORE STREET

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Saltash
National Grid Reference:
SX4261658926

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/06/2017 and on 25/01/2018


SX 4258
6/73

FORE STREET (west end),
Monument in Victoria Gardens

II

Circa 1900. Granite tapering pier with modillion capping supporting crown. Plinth has bronze relief of hero and a tablet inscribed "This monument was erected by his countrymen at home and abroad - To the memory of Major General Sir William Penn Symons KCB of Hatt who fell while commanding the British Troops at Talana Hill, Natal on 20 October 1899".


Listing NGR: SX4261658926

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, 16 June 2017.

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War Memorials Register, accessed 16 June 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/72341
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