HMS ROYAL SOVEREIGN MEMORIAL

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:: HMS ROYAL SOVEREIGN MEMORIAL, VICTORIA PARK

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Date:: 2003-01-22
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Official list entry

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

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: 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.

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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 Online, accessed 20 July 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/102635
War Memorials Register, accessed 20 July 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/21437

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.