Hms Powerful Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Portsmouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1999. Monument.
Hms Powerful Memorial
- WRENN ID
- dim-bonework-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Portsmouth
- Constituency
- Portsmouth South MP: Stephen Morgan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1999
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Hms Powerful Memorial, Victoria Park, City of Portsmouth
- OS grid reference
- SU 638 003
- Coordinates
- 50.79956, -1.09498
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The HMS Powerful Memorial is a monument located in Victoria Park, Portsmouth, built around 1900. It features a four-sided polished pink granite obelisk set on a stepped stone base. The memorial was erected by Captain the Hon. Hedworth Lambton, along with the officers and ship's company of H.M.S. Powerful, in memory of the officers and men of the Naval Brigade who were killed in action or died during the campaign in South Africa from 1899 to 1900. Inscriptions on the memorial list the names of those who died, as well as significant locations from the campaign, including Ladysmith, Graspan, Belmont, Moddere River, and Paardeberg.
Local climate
Hms Powerful Memorial 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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