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Title
Pilgrim Fathers Memorial
Date
1913
Medium
Portland stone, glass mosaic & copper
Accession number
SO14_AM_S012
Acquisition method
purchased by public subscription
Work type
Monument
Owner
Southampton City Council
Custodian
Southampton City Council
Work status
extant
Listing status
Grade II (England and Wales)
Unveiling date
15th August 1913
Listing date
14/02/69
Access
not accessible
Access note
The monument is undergoing major restoration during the next few years making access difficult.
Inscription description
incised plaque: IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF / THOSE PILGRIMS OF THE MAYFLOWER / WHO CROSSED THE ATLANTIC IN THE YEAR 1620 / AND BECAME THE FOUNDERS / OF THE FIRST OF THOSE SETTLEMENTS / WHICH AFTERWARDS DEVELOPED INTO THE COLONIES / OF NEW ENGLAND / THIS TABLET PLACED HERE BY THE / MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES / OF AMERICA; bronze plaque with raised letters: THE PILGRIM FATHERS MEMORIAL, SOUTHAMPTON, HAMPSHIRE, ENGLAND. / THE SEPARATIST CONGREGATION FROM BABWORTH, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE (1586-1604), WHICH / MOVED TO SCROOBY IN 1606, TO AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, IN 1608, AND TO LEYDEN IN / 1609, SAILED FROM DELFT HAVEN IN THE SPEEDWELL, ON AUGUST 1 (NEW STYLE), 1620, TO / JOIN THE MAYFLOWER, WITH ITS LONDON COLONISTS. HERE, BOTH SHIPS SAILED ON / AUGUST 15 (n.s.), THE MAYFLOWER ALONE SAILED TO PLYMOUTH, NEW ENGLAND, WITH / 102 PASSENGERS. / THE GENERAL SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS (U.S.A., 1897) / WALDO MORGAN ALLEN, GOVERNOR GENERAL / ON THEIR FIRST PILGRIMAGE - 152, BY PLANES - TO THE NETHERLANDS AND ENGLAND / SEPTEMBER 22 - OCTOBER 6, 1955 / 335 YEARS AFTER THE SAILING OF THE MAYFLOWER Second plaque with raised letters: 1944-1945 / THIS TABLET WAS PRESENTED BY THE 14TH MAJOR / PORT, UNITED STATES ARMY IN PROUD TRIBUTE / TO OVER TWO MILLION MEN AND WOMEN OF THE / UNITED STATES FORCES WHO, TOGETHER WITH / THEIR GALLANT ALLIES, SAILED FROM SOUTHAMPTON / BETWEEN "D" DAY JUNE 6TH, 1944, AND THE DAY OF / VICTORY TO LIBERATE THE CONTINENT OF / EUROPE FROM AGGRESSION, IN ORDER THAT / THE FREEDOM FOR WHICH THE PILGRIM FATHERS / STROVE SHOULD NOT BE LOST. / LEO J. MEYER / COLONEL T.C. / DEPUTY PORT COMMANDER / SHERMAN L. KISER / COLONEL T.C. / PORT COMMANDER