Five Dolphin Lamp Posts On Embankment Between The Square And Rock Park / 5 Dolphin Lamp Standards And Parapet Wall Adjoining River Taw Between Square And Rock Park

Description

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

BARNSTAPLE

SS5532 TAW VALE 684-1/4/228 (West side) 25/03/77 Five dolphin lamp posts on embankment between The Square and Rock Park (Formerly Listed as: TAW VALE (West side) 5 Dolphin lamp standards...parapet wall adj River Taw betw'n Square & Rock Park)

GV II

5 cast-iron lamp standards on stone pedestals. Probably mid C19. Limestone ashlar pedestals, oblong in section with moulded caps; red sandstone panels front and back, except where these have been replaced with electric light fittings.

Iron lamp standards have 2 dolphins intertwined round the stem of a plant. On the base is moulded COALBROOKDALE. Tops have been replaced in late C20. HISTORICAL NOTE: Taw Vale was cut through in 1846. `Coalbrookdale' was the celebrated Coalbrookdale Company, founded by Abraham Darby at Ironbridge, Shropshire, in 1708.

This design was made for the Victoria and Albert Embankments in London 1865-70.





Listing NGR: SS5597832809

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0990 IOE Records taken by Barbara Hilton; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Dr Barbara Hilton. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project