HMS Orlando Monument
HMS ORLANDO MONUMENT, VICTORIA PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387248
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- HMS Orlando Monument
- Statutory Address:
- HMS ORLANDO MONUMENT, VICTORIA PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387248
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- HMS Orlando Monument
- Statutory Address 1:
- HMS ORLANDO MONUMENT, VICTORIA PARK
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:
- HMS ORLANDO MONUMENT, VICTORIA PARK
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:
- SU 63902 00376
Details
PORTSMOUTH
SU6300 VICTORIA PARK
774-1/8/123 HMS Orlando Monument
25/09/72
GV II
Monument. Early C20. Stone and marble. Solid stone tent roof
with ball finial supported by brown polished marble squat
columns on white marble base. Elaborate monument in form of
miniature Chinese temple. Commemorates the Far East Commission
of H.M.S. Orlando 1899-1902. Contains bronze Chinese bell
'taken at the capture of the North-West Fort Taku, June 1890,
and brought home by H.M.S. Orlando.' Chinese inscription on
bell, the translation of which 'Come pleasant weather and
gentle rain. The empire happy, at peace again' is inscribed on
tablet below. Inscriptions list those who died during the
Commission and refer to the capture of Fort Taku, Trensin and
the defence of the legation Peking.
(Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs:
Portsmouth: 1974-: 86; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N &
Lloyd DW: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth:
1967-: 456, 457; Berridge DW: Monuments and Memorials in the
City of Portsmouth: 1984-: 15).
Listing NGR: SU6610802158
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:
- 475180
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Berridge, D W, Monuments and Memorials in the City of Portsmouth, (1984), 15
Lloyd, D W, Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs, (1974), 86
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 456,457
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 20 July 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/21433
War Memorials Online, accessed 20 July 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/102639
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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