HMS Victoria Monument

HMS VICTORIA MONUMENT, VICTORIA PARK

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1387253
Date first listed:
18-Mar-1999
List Entry Name:
HMS Victoria Monument
Statutory Address:
HMS VICTORIA MONUMENT, VICTORIA PARK
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1387253
Date first listed:
18-Mar-1999
List Entry Name:
HMS Victoria Monument
Statutory Address 1:
HMS VICTORIA 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HMS VICTORIA 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 63892 00384

Details

PORTSMOUTH

SU6300 VICTORIA PARK 774-1/8/127 HMS Victoria Monument

GV II

Monument. Late C19. Granite. 4-sided obelisk on base. Memorial in memory of the Officers and men who lost their lives on board H.M.S. Victoria, June 22nd 1893; erected by the survivors. H.M.S. Victoria sank from a collision with the Campordown off the coast of Tripoli. Those who died are listed on a bronze plaque. An added stone plaque states that "This monument was removed from the Town Hall Square at the request of the survivors on the 10th April 1903.: (Berridge DW: Monuments and Memorials in the City of Portsmouth: 1984-: 16).

Listing NGR: SU6610802158

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Legacy System number:
475185
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Sources

Books and journals
Berridge, D W, Monuments and Memorials in the City of Portsmouth, (1984), 16

Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 20 July 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/21434
War Memorials Online, accessed 20 July 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/194784

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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