TRIPLE LAMP STANDARD APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES TO WEST OF SOUTH WEST TOWER

TRIPLE LAMP STANDARD APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES TO WEST OF SOUTH WEST TOWER, CATHEDRAL GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382910
Date first listed:: 31-May-2000
List Entry Name:: TRIPLE LAMP STANDARD APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES TO WEST OF SOUTH WEST TOWER
Statutory Address:: TRIPLE LAMP STANDARD APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES TO WEST OF SOUTH WEST TOWER, CATHEDRAL GREEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382910
Date first listed:: 31-May-2000
List Entry Name:: TRIPLE LAMP STANDARD APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES TO WEST OF SOUTH WEST TOWER
Statutory Address 1:: TRIPLE LAMP STANDARD APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES TO WEST OF SOUTH WEST TOWER, CATHEDRAL GREEN

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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:: TRIPLE LAMP STANDARD APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES TO WEST OF SOUTH WEST TOWER, CATHEDRAL GREEN

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wells
National Grid Reference:: ST 55065 45869

Details

WELLS

ST5545 CATHEDRAL GREEN 662-1/7/348 (North side) Triple lamp standard approx 25 metres to west of south-west tower

GV II

Lamp standard with triple head. c1900, signed Geo Smith & Co. Sun Foundry, Glasgow. Cast-iron on stone base. A cylindrical moulded base rises from and is in part enclosed by a stepped stone base with bevelled top: this carries a lofty slender tapered and banded shaft, with a fluted lower section and some palmate enrichment, to a moulded capital with a cross-arm to floriate scrolls and 3 overthrow arms to banded cylindrical pendant lamps with wide flared hood, and a hemispherical glass lamp protector. The overthrows are supported on and surmounted by thin wrought-iron scrolls, rising as a crowning pinnacle. The base has an applied cast plaque in honour of a former Dean, Patrick Mitchell. The standard was probably originally gas lit but has been changed to electricity. It is similar to, but not identical with, a standard in the Market Place (qv), and appears in a photograph of 1905. A fine example of C19 street furniture. (Scrase AJ: Wells, A Pictorial History: Plate 146: Gloucester: 1992-).

Listing NGR: ST5506145852

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Scrase, A J, Wells: A Pictorial History, (1992)

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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.