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Latitude: 50.3653 / 50°21'55"N
Longitude: -4.1416 / 4°8'29"W
OS Eastings: 247779
OS Northings: 53903
OS Grid: SX477539
Mapcode National: GBR RBF.RT
Mapcode Global: FRA 2862.J9G
Plus Code: 9C2Q9V85+48
Entry Name: Armada Memorial
Listing Date: 1 May 1975
Last Amended: 9 November 1998
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1386461
English Heritage Legacy ID: 473848
ID on this website: 101386461
Location: Hoe Park, Plymouth, Devon, PL1
County: City of Plymouth
Electoral Ward/Division: St Peter and the Waterfront
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Plymouth
Traditional County: Devon
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon
Tagged with: Memorial
PLYMOUTH
SX4753 THE PROMENADE, Hoe 740-1/66/302 Armada Memorial 01/05/75 (Formerly Listed as: THE HOE, Plymouth Armada Memorial)
GV II*
Memorial. 1888. By Herbert A Gribble, architect and W Charles May, sculptor. Dressed granite with bronze fittings and sculpture. Octagonal stepped base to square panelled plinth with entablature, ramped in to tall panelled chest with entablature and further ramped in to entablature of base for bronze of Britannia with lion. Front has crowned shield with drapes, panel depicting the Armada above, the inscription: "HE BLEW WITH HIS WINDS AND THEY WERE SCATTERED" and the chest with a wreathed medallion with head of presumably the Spanish admiral, Sedonia. There is a low perimeter fence with granite plinth and chains between turned cast-iron stanchions. One of a very fine sequence of memorials and monuments on the Hoe. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 665).
Listing NGR: SX4777953903
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