Boer War Memorial, Morrab Gardens, Penzance is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 2017. War memorial. 2 related planning applications.
Boer War Memorial, Morrab Gardens, Penzance
- WRENN ID
- high-gargoyle-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Boer War Memorial, Morrab Gardens, Penzance, TR18 4DA
- OS grid reference
- SW 471 299
- Coordinates
- 50.11609, -5.53771
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Boer War Memorial, located in Morrab Gardens, Penzance, was unveiled on 5 November 1904 and created by Pascoe and Co. It has undergone repairs and restoration in the late 20th century.
The memorial features a life-size statue of a volunteer soldier dressed in khaki, wearing a Baden-Powell hat, and leaning on the butt end of a rifle with his head bowed. This statue is made of Sicilian marble and stands on a square plinth of roughly-dressed and polished granite in a classical style. An inscription on the front of the plinth reads: "THIS MEMORIAL / IS ERECTED BY THE INHABITANTS / OF PENZANCE / TO THE MEMORY OF THE / PENZANCE MEN (WHOSE NAMES / APPEAR BELOW) WHO LOST THEIR LIVES / DURING THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR / 1899 -1902 / (NAMES)." The memorial is situated with the Morrab Library to the north-west.
Local climate
Boer War Memorial, Morrab Gardens, Penzance sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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