The Gordon Lamp

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This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

CHELTENHAM

SO9421NW LANSDOWN ROAD 630-1/17/454 The Gordon Lamp 14/12/83

GV II

Lamp post. 1887 for gas, adapted for electricity 1899-1900. Subscribed for by residents of Montpellier (1885) who wished to embellish the neighbourhood and as a memorial to General Gordon (see commemorative tablet added in 1933 by the Scottish Society). Granite base supplied by Fraser and Son of Aberdeen at a cost of 200. Polished grey granite octagonal and moulded plinth and red granite drum with incised pilasters and white marble Corinthian capitals. The lamp post itself is now a tall fluted iron shaft supported by 3 putti with torches and enriched by lotus and other motifs; capital surmounted by 3 branches with enriched scrolled filling and pendant lamps; further scrolled enrichments forming finials. Tablet notes: 'in memory of Major-General Charles George Gordon CBRE 1833-1885. An outstanding example of late C19 street furniture of this type. (Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 64-65).





Listing NGR: SO9432621773

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/1740 IOE Records taken by David Ross; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr David Ross. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project