Three lamp posts along Crown Place
Crown Place, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 2SA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1432946
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Three lamp posts along Crown Place
- Statutory Address:
- Crown Place, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 2SA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1432946
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Three lamp posts along Crown Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- Crown Place, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 2SA
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
- Statutory Address:
- Crown Place, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 2SA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Harrogate
- National Grid Reference:
- SE2983755363
Summary
Three cast iron lamp posts of 1848 design installed after 1890.
Reasons for Designation
The lamp posts along Crown Place are listed for the following principal reasons:
* Decorative design: as good examples of Victorian mass-produced, functional yet decorative street furniture;
* Historical interest: as a marker of Harrogate’s C19 civic pride, the introduction of street lighting from 1848 being a particular focus of the town’s early local authority;
* Streetscape: for their strong visual contribution to the cobbled street flanked by listed Victorian buildings.
History
Harrogate’s first 97 street lamps were installed by the Harrogate Gas Company in 1848 on behalf of the Improvement Commissioners (established in 1841, the forerunner of Harrogate’s local council), with further street lamps added in subsequent years. Historical records show that the provision of street lighting in the mid-C19 was a particular focus for the town’s early local authority, prompting much controversy in the years around 1850. Victorian photographs of lamp posts on Promenade Square, Chapel Street, at Christ Church and the Crown Hotel (all locations for lamp posts installed in 1848) show posts matching the design of the three now located along Crown Place. These lamp posts originally supported lanterns lit with open gas flames, these being generally replaced after 1898 with smaller ‘Windsor’ style lanterns with more efficient gas mantles, as shown in early C20 photographs. By 1970 Harrogate’s gas lamps had all been converted to electricity, generally with swan neck fittings, these subsequently replaced with more traditionally styled lanterns based on the ‘Windsor’ design.
The 1889-90 1:500 town plan of Harrogate shows that there were no lamp posts on Crown Place, although lamps did flank the southern entrance to the Royal Pump Room. It is not known when the lamp posts were installed along Crown Place.
Details
Three former gas lamp posts, 1848 design with late C20 lanterns.
FORM: cast iron with a square base with embossed decoration featuring a Yorkshire rose set above a palmette to each face. Rising from the base is a tapering, reeded column topped by a palmette decorated bell capital. Above this are a pair of small lion heads flanked by ornately shaped ladder rests. Above, supported on a short shaft, is a modern reproduction of a ‘Windsor’ style lantern.
STREET SETTING: set along a cobbled, pedestrianized street flanked by the Grade II*- listed Royal Pump Room and the Grade II-listed 1-3 Crown Place.
Sources
Books and journals
HH Walker, , History of Harrogate under the Improvement Commissioners 1841-1884, (1986)
Websites
1924 photograph of a similar lamp post in Harrogate, accessed 21/4/2016 from http://www.francisfrith.com/harrogate/harrogate-adelphi-hotel-1924_75646
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
The listed buildings are shown coloured blue on the attached map. Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’), structures attached to or within the curtilage of the listed building (save those coloured blue on the map) are not to be treated as part of the listed building for the purposes of the Act.
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