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Harris Memorial (St Peter's Gardens)

A Grade II Listed Building in Wolverhampton, City of Wolverhampton

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Latitude: 52.5866 / 52°35'11"N

Longitude: -2.1272 / 2°7'37"W

OS Eastings: 391478

OS Northings: 298758

OS Grid: SO914987

Mapcode National: GBR 1DK.H5

Mapcode Global: WHBFZ.979X

Plus Code: 9C4VHVPF+J4

Entry Name: Harris Memorial (St Peter's Gardens)

Listing Date: 31 March 1992

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1355124

English Heritage Legacy ID: 378460

ID on this website: 101355124

Location: St Peter's Gardens, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV1

County: City of Wolverhampton

Electoral Ward/Division: St Peter's

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Wolverhampton

Traditional County: Staffordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Midlands

Church of England Parish: Central Wolverhampton

Church of England Diocese: Lichfield

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Description



WOLVERHAMPTON

SO9198NW LICHFIELD STREET
895-1/11/259 (North side)
Harris Memorial (St.Peter's Gardens)

GV II

Memorial. 1917-19. Bust by R.J.Emerson. Ashlar with bronze
bust and plaques. Battered square plinth and stele have
projections to sides with inscriptions to tops and caps with
undulating lines; bust of sailor has cap band of H.M.S.
Admirable; plaque to front has inscription recording heroic
death of Harris and relief shows him slumped in ship's
wireless room; plaque to rear has inscription in Italian. Able
Seaman Harris was killed in the Adriatic Sea while remaining
at his post in the wireless room on the crippled drifter
Floandi.


Listing NGR: SO9147898758


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, 18 January 2017.

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