HMS Doris Memorial Gun
HMS DORIS MEMORIAL GUN, DEVONPORT PARK
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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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 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
II
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.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489015
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 08/12/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/25724
War Memorials Online, accessed 08/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/98429
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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