Cheltenham - Crimean War

Winter Gardens, Cheltenham - Taken by ResearchPress.co.uk (estimated date) 01 Jan 1905

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Men - Taken by Richard Hill 06 Aug 2013

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Taken at Sebastopol 1856 - Taken by Richard Hill 06 Aug 2013

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Descriptive face - Taken by Richard Hill 06 Aug 2013

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Officers - Taken by Richard Hill 06 Aug 2013

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Cheltenham Crimean War memorial - Taken by Brogan Higginbotham 11 Oct 2015

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Crimea war memorial - Taken by Roger Reese 07 Oct 2017

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Crimea war memorial - Taken by Roger Reese 07 Oct 2017

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Reference WMO/120488

Address:

Queens Hotel

The Promenade

Cheltenham

GL50 1NN

England

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Status: On original site

Type: Freestanding

Location: External

Setting: Roadside

Description: Trophy/Relic

Materials:

Metal Iron

Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque

Conflicts:

Crimean War (1853-1856)

About the memorial: This Grade II listed memorial is located in front of the Queen’s Hotel on the Promenade, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. It is formed of a large black rectangular cast iron plinth which used to support a cannon. Around the top of the plinth is a low barrier of metal spikes with short metal posts with spherical finals at the corners, and the area within this barrier is now used as a planter for flowers. The memorial is spanned by a decorative arch painted in gilt and green, surmounted by a lamp. Underneath the lamp, supported by the arch, is a badge containing the monogram VR. There is gilded lettering around the faces of the plinth.

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In April 1857 Lord Panmure, Secretary at War, authorised that two Russian guns be presented to the town of Cheltenham as trophies of the Crimean War. The guns arrived at Cheltenham in May 1857 and were taken to the Queen's Hotel where they languished for many months in the stable yard. These twenty-four pounders, each weighing two tons eight cwt., were eventually mounted on carriages, after the design of those furnished by the Ordnance authorities at Woolwich, and manufactured at Messrs. Butt and Co.’s foundry, at Kingsholm, Gloucester. The guns were mounted on their pedestals in front of the Queen's Hotel on 5 July 1858, where they remained for many years. Like so many such guns, during World War Two both the guns and one of the pedestals were removed in 1942 to be broken up for munitions. The two bases were identical.

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Inscription:

Side 1: TAKEN/ AT/ SEBASTOPOL/ 1856 Side 2, centre section: TO THE MEMORY/ OF THE MEN/ CONNECTED WITH/ CHELTENHAM/ WHO FELL IN THE/ CRIMEA Side 2, left and right hand sides: (NAMES) Side 3: THIS MEMORIAL RECORDS THE NAMES OF THOSE FROM/ THIS BOROUGH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE CRIMEAN/ WAR. IT WAS ORIGINALLY SURMOUNTED BY A GUN/ TAKEN AT SEBASTOPOL/ DURING THE WAR OF 1939-1945 THE GUN WAS HANDED TO/ THE GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE METAL FOR ARMAMENTS Side 4: (NAMES)

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Grade II (England)

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https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1387700

Unique listing reference number:

13877000

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