Peel Or Shannon Naval Brigade Monument

PEEL OR SHANNON NAVAL BRIGADE MONUMENT, CLARENCE ESPLANADE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1386972
Date first listed:
25-Sept-1972
List Entry Name:
Peel Or Shannon Naval Brigade Monument
Statutory Address:
PEEL OR SHANNON NAVAL BRIGADE MONUMENT, CLARENCE ESPLANADE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1386972
Date first listed:
25-Sept-1972
List Entry Name:
Peel Or Shannon Naval Brigade Monument
Statutory Address 1:
PEEL OR SHANNON NAVAL BRIGADE MONUMENT, CLARENCE ESPLANADE

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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:
PEEL OR SHANNON NAVAL BRIGADE MONUMENT, CLARENCE ESPLANADE

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 63565 98764

Details

PORTSMOUTH

SZ6398NE CLARENCE ESPLANADE, Southsea 774-1/25/331 Peel or Shannon Naval Brigade 25/09/72 Monument

II

Monument. 1860. Granite and stone. 4-sided tapering pier with polished pink granite panels framed in white granite supports, cornice with shell ornamentation to frieze surmounted by elaborate bronze finial. Monument sits on stepped stone plinth with canon bollards at corners. Bronze finial was cast from the metal of a gun captured at Lucknow and presented to Shannon's Brigade by General Lord Clyde, GCB, C-in-C of the army. The monument was erected in 1860 by the Officers and Crew of HMS Shannon in memory of Captain Sir William Peel, KCB, Captain Thos. Gray, RN, Mr MP Gavuey, mate, Mr MA Daniel, midshipman, the seaman and marines of the Shannon's Naval Brigade who fell whilst employed in the NW Provinces of India during the mutiny 1857-58. (Berridge DW: Monuments & Memorials in the City of Portsmouth: 1984-: 7).



Listing NGR: SZ6425599150

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Berridge, D W, Monuments and Memorials in the City of Portsmouth, (1984), 7

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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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