Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1405186
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-2012
- List Entry Name:
- Jubilee Lamp
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1405186
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-2012
- List Entry Name:
- Jubilee Lamp
- Location Description:
- Jubilee Lamp to the south-west of Kirkham United Reformed Church, Poulton Street, Kirkham, Lancashire
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.
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Fylde (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirkham
- National Grid Reference:
- SD4241432112
Summary
Cast iron lamp post and circular stone base erected in 1887 to celebrate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.
Reasons for Designation
The Jubilee Lamp outside Kirkham United Reformed Church is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Historic significance: it commemorates the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria, Britain's first female monarch to rule for 50 years and only the fifth British monarch to have reached this milestone.
* Architectural interest and design quality: the lamp has been competently executed in sandstone and cast iron and has been successfully enhanced by a colour scheme designed that enhances its decorative and ornate features.
* Rarity: only five other Jubilee Lamps are listed in England and of these only three commemorate Victoria's Golden Jubilee.
History
The Jubilee Lamp post was erected in 1887 and was built by public subscription to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. The architect is unknown.
Details
The Jubilee Lamp post is located on Poulton Street close to the south west corner of Kirkham United Reformed Church. It consists of an octagonal moulded Gothic sandstone base with the engraving 'ERECTED / BY THE / INHABITANTS / IN / COMMEMMORATION / OF / THE QUEENS / JUBILEE / 1887' on its south face. A decorative cast iron lamp post stands on top of the base and consists of a hexagonal base to which a plaque has been affixed to the south face which reads ' REFURBISHED IN CELEBRATION / OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF / KIRKHAM AND RURAL FYLDE / ROTARY CLUB / 1938-88'. Above the base is a circular moulded plinth from which rise four twisted columns topped by a single capital. Above this a decorative moulded shaft supports an inverted tapering hexagonal glass and metal lampshade.
Sources
Books and journals
Hartwell, C, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Lancashire North, (2009), 357
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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