Hms Orlando Monument is a Grade II listed building in the Portsmouth local planning authority area, England. Monument. 1 related planning application.
Hms Orlando Monument
- WRENN ID
- inner-threshold-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Portsmouth
- Constituency
- Portsmouth South MP: Stephen Morgan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Hms Orlando Monument, Victoria Park, City of Portsmouth
- OS grid reference
- SU 639 003
- Coordinates
- 50.79942, -1.0946
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
HMS Orlando Monument is a memorial located in Victoria Park, Portsmouth, built in the early 20th century. It is constructed from stone and marble and features a solid stone tent roof topped with a ball finial, supported by squat brown polished marble columns on a white marble base. The monument is designed to resemble a miniature Chinese temple and commemorates the Far East Commission of H.M.S. Orlando from 1899 to 1902.
Inside the monument, there is a bronze Chinese bell that was taken during the capture of the North-West Fort Taku in June 1890 and brought back by H.M.S. Orlando. The bell bears a Chinese inscription, which translates to "Come pleasant weather and gentle rain. The empire happy, at peace again," and this translation is also inscribed on a tablet below. Additional inscriptions on the monument list those who died during the Commission and reference the capture of Fort Taku, Trensin, and the defense of the legation in Peking.
Local climate
Hms Orlando Monument receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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