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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Overview
- 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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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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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 1:
- TRIPLE LAMP STANDARD APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES TO WEST OF SOUTH WEST TOWER, CATHEDRAL GREEN
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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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483313
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Scrase, A J, Wells: A Pictorial History, (1992)
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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