HMS DORIS MEMORIAL GUN

HMS DORIS MEMORIAL GUN, DEVONPORT PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390062
Date first listed:: 08-May-2002
List Entry Name:: HMS DORIS MEMORIAL GUN
Statutory Address:: HMS DORIS MEMORIAL GUN, DEVONPORT PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390062
Date first listed:: 08-May-2002
List Entry Name:: HMS DORIS MEMORIAL GUN
Statutory Address 1:: HMS DORIS MEMORIAL GUN, DEVONPORT 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: HMS DORIS MEMORIAL GUN, DEVONPORT PARK

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: City of Plymouth (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SX 45516 55111

Details

740-1/0/10061 DEVONPORT PARK 08-MAY-02 Devonport HMS Doris Memorial Gun

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Boer War memorial. Erected 1904; by Harry Hems. Polished granite plinth on base, rectangular on plan with white marble inscription panels bordered by cable moulding; chamfered arris at top inscribed with the words 'Ready-Aye-Ready'. Surmounted by the field gun brought from the Boer War. It was erected as a memorial to the crew of HMS Doris who died fighting in South Africa alongside the army at the Battle of Paardeberg. This field gun was captured from the Boers and dragged the distance of 800 hundred miles back to their ship HMS Doris. In 1901 HMS Doris returned to Devonport to an heroic welcome and the crew decided there should be a memorial to the sailors who died in the battle. The memorial was unveiled in 1904 by Admiral E.H. Seymour. It is said that the exploit was the origin of Royal Navy field gun trials. HMS Doris Memorial Gun is a most unusual Boer War memorial.

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, 8 December 2016.

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Legacy System number:: 489015
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 08/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/98429
War Memorials Register, accessed 08/12/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/25724

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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.