Peel or Shannon Naval Brigade Monument is a Grade II listed building in the Portsmouth local planning authority area, England. Monument.
Peel or Shannon Naval Brigade Monument
- WRENN ID
- winter-stronghold-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Portsmouth
- Constituency
- Portsmouth South MP: Stephen Morgan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Peel or Shannon Naval Brigade Monument, Clarence Esplanade, City of Portsmouth
- OS grid reference
- SZ 635 987
- Coordinates
- 50.78496, -1.09966
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Peel or Shannon Naval Brigade Monument is a memorial located on Clarence Esplanade in Southsea, Portsmouth, built in 1860. It is made of granite and stone and features a four-sided tapering pier with polished pink granite panels framed by white granite supports. The monument has a cornice adorned with shell ornamentation on the frieze, topped with an elaborate bronze finial. This finial was cast from the metal of a gun captured at Lucknow and was presented to Shannon's Brigade by General Lord Clyde, the Commander-in-Chief of the army.
The monument stands on a stepped stone plinth, with cannon bollards at each corner. It was erected by the Officers and Crew of HMS Shannon in memory of Captain Sir William Peel, Captain Thomas Gray, Mr. M.P. Gavuey, Mr. M.A. Daniel, and the seamen and marines of Shannon's Naval Brigade who lost their lives while serving in the North-West Provinces of India during the mutiny of 1857-58.
Local climate
Peel or Shannon Naval Brigade 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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