Armada Memorial is a Grade II* listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. Memorial.
Armada Memorial
- WRENN ID
- swift-brass-rain
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1975
- Type
- Memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
PLYMOUTH
SX4753 THE PROMENADE, Hoe 740-1/66/302 Armada Memorial 01/05/75 (Formerly Listed as: THE HOE, Plymouth Armada Memorial)
GV II*
Memorial. 1888. By Herbert A Gribble, architect and W Charles May, sculptor. Dressed granite with bronze fittings and sculpture. Octagonal stepped base to square panelled plinth with entablature, ramped in to tall panelled chest with entablature and further ramped in to entablature of base for bronze of Britannia with lion. Front has crowned shield with drapes, panel depicting the Armada above, the inscription: "HE BLEW WITH HIS WINDS AND THEY WERE SCATTERED" and the chest with a wreathed medallion with head of presumably the Spanish admiral, Sedonia. There is a low perimeter fence with granite plinth and chains between turned cast-iron stanchions. One of a very fine sequence of memorials and monuments on the Hoe. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 665).
Listing NGR: SX4777953903
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