LAMP POST APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES TO EAST OF CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST

LAMP POST APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES TO EAST OF CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE PARSONAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1315617
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:: LAMP POST APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES TO EAST OF CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST
Statutory Address:: LAMP POST APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES TO EAST OF CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE PARSONAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1315617
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:: LAMP POST APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES TO EAST OF CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST
Statutory Address 1:: LAMP POST APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES TO EAST OF CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE PARSONAGE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: LAMP POST APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES TO EAST OF CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE PARSONAGE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Knaresborough
National Grid Reference:: SE 34741 57186

Details

SE 3457 KNARESBOROUGH THE PARSONAGE (north side)

6/192 Lamp post approximately 4 metres to east of Church of Saint John the Baptist

GV II

Lamp post. Early C19. Cast iron. Square base with lion masks. Lower half of shaft reeded, the upper half octagonal. Fern-leaf decoration to middle and top of shaft. 4 curved brackets to support oil-lamp (missing), and a projecting arm with moulded finial, probably a ladder support. Similar lamp posts have been noted in Kirkgate (q,v.) and Gallows Steps, Kirkgate (q.v.). They are the remains of the first system of gas works, mains and lights installed by John Malam. The lights were turned on on 13th September 1824. B Jennings (Ed), History of Harrogate and Knaresborough, 1970, p 342.

Listing NGR: SE3474157186

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Legacy System number:: 330861
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Sources

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Jennings, B, A History of Harrogate and Knaresborough, (1970), 342

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.