St Agnes lighthouse
St Agnes lighthouse
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1328835
- Date first listed:
- 06-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- St Agnes lighthouse
- Statutory Address:
- St Agnes lighthouse
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1328835
- Date first listed:
- 06-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- St Agnes lighthouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- St Agnes lighthouse
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- St Agnes lighthouse
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isles of Scilly (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Agnes
- National Grid Reference:
- SV8802008202
Details
This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement 5 June 2024 to amend details in the description, name and address and reformat the text to current standards
SV80NE
1358-0/6/10
ST. AGNES
St Agnes lighthouse
(Formerly listed as The Lighthouse)
06/04/59
GV
II*
Lighthouse. 1680 for Trinity House, with cupola of 1806.
MATERIALS: Colourwashed render on granite rubble, with cast-iron and glass cupola.
PLAN: Circular on plan.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys with fourth-storey cupola. Two plat-band divisions. Randomly-placed casement and four-pane openings. Projecting eaves with cast-iron railing, curved stanchions tied to glass cupola with square panes with curved conical roof. Addition of c1840 consists of single-storey lean-to porch and corridor attached with further right-angled corridor attached leading to house (q.v.).
INTERIOR: noted as having lantern reached by wooden newel stair from first floor and carried by shallow stone vault (replacing original timber ceiling); stone mural stair to first floor which has four gun ports.
HISTORY: Plaque records original build of c1680 by Captain Hugh Hill and Captain Simon Bayly, builders of the 1676 Lowestoft lighthouse. Superseded in 1910 by the Peninnis Lighthouse, St. Mary's (q.v.). The original iron cresset is now in Tresco Gardens (q.v.).
SOURCES: Hague D and Christie R, Lighthouses: Their Architecture, History and Archaeology, 1975, 79-81, 241-4.
Listing NGR: SV8803008216
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 62449
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hague, B, Christie, R, Lighthouses their Architecture History and Archaeology, (1975), 79-81
Hague, B, Christie, R, Lighthouses their Architecture History and Archaeology, (1975), 241-244
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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