Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Allegory (eg: Victory)
- District
- Sheffield
- Town
- Sheffield
- County
- South Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
- Maker
- Mr. G. Goldie (Architect)
Mr. Henry Lane (Sculptor) - Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 1863
Attended by: Unknown - Foundation Stone
Date: 21 October 1857
Attended by: Marquess of Cambridge - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 2003
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Current location
Bontanical Gardens
Clarkehouse Road
Sheffield
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S10 2NS
England
OS Grid Ref: SK 33538 86304
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- The Moorhead
Sheffield
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
England
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined
- The Moorhead
- Description
- Seated crowned female figure with inverted sword in her right hand and wreath in her left, representing Britain victorious. On cruciform plinth and circular single step base.
- Inscription
- THIS MONUMENT IN/ MEMORY OF THOSE/ NATIVES OF SHEFFIELD/ WHO FELL IN THE WAR/ IN THE CRIMEA/ WAS ERECTED BY PUBLIC/ SUBSCRIPTIONS AD1863
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
- Components
- Plinth
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Figure
Measurements: height 3000MM
Materials: Bronze
- Plinth
- Listing information
- CRIMEAN WAR MEMORIAL IN BOTANICAL GARDENS
- Grade II
- This memorial is protected, and listed on the National Heritage List for England maintained by Historic England. View list entry
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- SHEFFIELD CRIMEAN WAR
- WMO ID: 120545
- Condition: Very bad [last updated on 12-07-2017]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- MONUMENT IN ITS PRESENT FORM IN GOOD CONDITION. HOWEVER, HAS LOST ITS COLUMN, ELABORATELY DECORATED BASE, AND TWO RUSSIAN GUNS AT VARIOUS POINTS IN ITS HISTORY 2007: The memorial was removed from the original site following listed building consent being granted to another site in Sheffield
- Costs
Site: £1,000
Memorial: £1,400- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Reference
- "150 Years of Architectural Drawing" - Hadfield, Caukwell Davidson - Sheffield 1834-1984- pg. 52 - '25 Crimean War Memorial'
- Sheffield Star - 17 December 2003 - ' Memorial to be moved'
- Sheffield Star - 15 July 2003 - 'Monument faces City Centre switch' Sheffield Star - 31 December 2003 - 'The best place to remember those who fell in Crimea'
- "Sheffield Curiosities" - pg. 59 - Duncan & Trevor Smith 1997 - 'A Playground with a Difference' Hammond Street, SE3
- Supplement to the Sheffield and Rotherham Independent - 24 October 1857 - (Discovered in the time capsule when the monument was moved)
- Pawson & Brailsford Illustrated Sheffield Guide 1862 - Pgs. 71/72 - 'Monument to the Crimean Heroes.'
- Sheffield Daily Telegraph - 13 November 1959 - 'Monument to be moved to make way for road'
- Sheffield Daily Telegraph - 5 January 1960 - 'News from 1857 under the Monument'
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