Doyle Monument

It was built to honor Sir John Doyle (1756-1834), Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey 1803-1816, by the people of the island.

It was built of granite and a staircase inside wound up to its summit.

[3] A coloured engraving of the monument appears in the book Festung Guernsey which was created by the German occupiers to document their defences of the island.

[4] The monument was demolished by German engineers in 1944 during the Occupation as Batterie Strassburg was built close to the site and it blocked the 360-degree angle of fire, photographs showing the demolition were taken.

[5] A second smaller monument, a granite column, was built in the same location, a small hill, at a cost of £1,400, and was completed in 1953.