HMS Royal Sovereign Memorial
HMS ROYAL SOVEREIGN MEMORIAL, VICTORIA PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387250
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1999
- List Entry Name:
- HMS Royal Sovereign Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- HMS ROYAL SOVEREIGN MEMORIAL, VICTORIA PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387250
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1999
- List Entry Name:
- HMS Royal Sovereign Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- HMS ROYAL SOVEREIGN MEMORIAL, 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 ROYAL SOVEREIGN MEMORIAL, 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 63871 00424
Details
PORTSMOUTH
SU6300 VICTORIA PARK
774-1/8/125 HMS Royal Sovereign Memorial
GV II
Monument. c1903. By White Bros. of Landport. Granite. 4 sided
obelisk on base set on sandstone slab. Erected by the Officers
and men "In memory of those killed in a gun accident on board
H.M.S. Sovereign off Platea, November 9th 1901, whilst
discharging their duty"... also to the memory of those who
died during The Commission". Inscriptions list those who were
killed and those who died during the commission 1899-1902.
(Berridge DW: Monuments and Memorials in the City of
Portsmouth: 1984-: 20).
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:
- 475182
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Berridge, D W, Monuments and Memorials in the City of Portsmouth, (1984), 20
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 20 July 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/21437
War Memorials Online, accessed 20 July 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/102635
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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