Prince Christian Victor Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. War memorial. 1 related planning application.

Prince Christian Victor Memorial

WRENN ID
sleeping-doorway-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Plymouth
Constituency
Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 May 1975
Type
War memorial
Address
Prince Christian Victor Memorial, the Promenade, City of Plymouth, PL1 2PA
OS grid reference
SX 479 540
Coordinates
50.36624, -4.13954
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Prince Christian Victor Memorial is a war memorial located on the Promenade at the Hoe in Plymouth. It was erected in 1902 in memory of Christian Victor, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein, who died in the Boer War. The memorial features a polished pink granite obelisk that is partly fluted and stands on a plinth with bronze plaques, all set on a stepped granite base. The obelisk has a square plan, and each side of the plinth includes a segmental-arched panel. Two of these panels depict engagements from the Boer War, while the front panel shows the war hero being carried aloft by an angel, and the other panel illustrates a heavenly scene with angels. Surrounding the memorial is a low perimeter fence made of granite bollards linked by chains. This memorial is part of a notable group of memorials located on the Hoe.

Local climate

Prince Christian Victor Memorial 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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