HMS Thunderer Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Gosport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 2016. Memorial.
HMS Thunderer Memorial
- WRENN ID
- kindled-pediment-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gosport
- Constituency
- Gosport MP: Dame Caroline Dinenage (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 2016
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- HMS Thunderer Memorial, Clayhall Royal Naval Cemetery, Clayhall Road, Hampshire
- OS grid reference
- SZ 610 986
- Coordinates
- 50.78439, -1.13578
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The HMS Thunderer Memorial is a grave marker commemorating a fatal explosion that occurred on board HMS Thunderer in 1876. It features a square limestone slab, a square pink granite plinth, and a marble base and shaft.
The memorial is designed as an obelisk that stands on a stepped granite plinth. It rises to an inscribed pedestal, which has a moulded shoulder where it meets the shaft. The pedestal is inscribed with applied metal lettering that reads: ‘THIS MONUMENT WHICH STANDS ON THE GRAVES / OF / MESS. TC SLADE CHIEF ENGINEER RN / AND ROBERT WINFIELD ENGINEER RN / IS ERECTED BY BROTHER OFFICERS / FELLOW WORKMEN AND FRIENDS / TO THE MEMORY OF ALL THOSE WHO LOST THEIR / LIVES THROUGH THE EXPLOSION OF A BOILER / ON BOARD HMS THUNDERER AT SPITHEAD ON JULY 14TH 1876. / THE GREATER PART OF WHOM ARE BURIED IN / THE GRAVES ADJOINING THIS MONUMENT.’
The other three faces of the obelisk list the names of the deceased, organized by rank and role. The granite plinth is marked with the name of the masons, White Bros.
Local climate
HMS Thunderer 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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