KILLINGHOLME HIGH LIGHTHOUSE
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103706
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1985
- Statutory Address:
- KILLINGHOLME HIGH LIGHTHOUSE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- KILLINGHOLME HIGH LIGHTHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- South Killingholme
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 17834 18214
Details
HUMBERSIDE
GLANFORD
5264
TA 11 NE SOUTH KILLINGHOLME
TA 178 182
11/71 Killingholme High
Lighthouse
GV II
Lighthouse. Established 1831, rebuilt 1876-7 for Trinity House. Brick,
rendered and colourwashed. 6-storey tapered round tower, 30 metres high.
Recessed plain door under timber lintel. Two recessed louvred openings to
ground floor, two or three 12-pane sashes to 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th floors
with projecting cills and recessed lintels. Moulded cornice supports
balcony to top floor with plain iron railings. Top floor has plinth,
incised band below cillband, wide east-facing window with vertical glazing
bars. Ribbed dome with scalloped eaves, capped with cylindrical ventilator
and weathervane. Stack rising from south side has stepped cornice and four
cylindrical pots. Plaque on north side inscribed:
THIS LIGHT HOUSE
WAS ENLARGED AND REBUILT BY THE
TRINITY HOUSE
OF KINGSTON UPON HULL 1877
JOHN WILSON (WARDENS
GEORGE HARRISON (
THE ONE AT S.E. WAS ERECTED IN 1836
WILLM COLLINSON (WARDENS
GEORGE NALL (
AND THE ONE AT THE N.E. IN 1851
JOHN SUGDEN (WARDENS
HUNTER ESTILL (
Lighthouse, no longer manned, is used in conjunction with the nearby
Killingholme South Low Lighthouse to guide shipping in the Humber, and in
the C19 was a link in the Hull Telegraph. D. Jackson, Lighthouses of
England and Wales, 1975, 104-5.
Listing NGR: TA1783418214
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 165871
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jackson, D , Lighthouses of England and Wales, (1975), 104-105
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
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