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Latitude: 52.9612 / 52°57'40"N
Longitude: -1.1555 / 1°9'19"W
OS Eastings: 456822
OS Northings: 340760
OS Grid: SK568407
Mapcode National: GBR LML.YM
Mapcode Global: WHDGS.7T0R
Plus Code: 9C4WXR6V+FQ
Entry Name: War Memorial on South Side of Arboretum
Listing Date: 12 July 1972
Last Amended: 30 November 1995
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1270406
English Heritage Legacy ID: 459055
ID on this website: 101270406
Location: Chinese Bell Garden, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG1
County: City of Nottingham
Electoral Ward/Division: Arboretum
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Nottingham
Traditional County: Nottinghamshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Nottinghamshire
Church of England Parish: Nottingham St Peter with St James
Church of England Diocese: Southwell and Nottingham
Tagged with: War memorial
NOTTINGHAM
SK54SE WAVERLEY STREET
646-1/4/693 (East side (off))
12/07/72 War Memorial on south side of
Arboretum
(Formerly Listed as:
ARBORETUM
War Memorial)
II
War memorial. Dated 1862-63. By M Ogle Tarbotton, Borough
Engineer. Ashlar. Rectangular platform, pink sandstone, approx
10m x 5m, on a stepped ashlar plinth. Inscriptions, partly
illegible, around the platform. At each corner, a cannon on a
stone base. In the centre of the platform, an octagonal cupola
in the Chinese style, with swept octagonal spire. Round
columns with traceried brackets, and inscriptions in Chinese
and Russian on the frieze.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the cupola originally contained a bell,
looted by British troops from a temple in Canton during the
Anglo-Chinese war of 1857-61. This was removed to the
regimental museum in 1956. 2 of the cannon were captured at
Sebastopol in 1854-55, during the Crimean war: 2 are replicas
c1862.
The memorial commemorates the involvement of the 59th/2nd
Nottinghamshire Regiment of Foot in these wars, and the
trophies were presented by Lt. Col. Burmester in 1857. The
memorial is unusual in commemorating two campaigns, and dates
from a period when the names of those killed were not
recorded.
(Nottingham Topic: April 1952: Nottingham: 1952-).
Listing NGR: SK5682240760
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, 24 January 2017.
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