Spurn Lighthouse

EASINGTON SPURN POINT TA 41 SW 14/6 Spurn Lighthouse GV II Lighthouse. 1893-5 by Thomas Matthews for Trinity House. Brick, painted, on concrete base. Tapered round tower with entrance to west. 6 storeys, surmounted by lantern; overall height approximately 36 metres. High chamfered plinth. Flight of 5 stone steps flanked by cast- and wrought-iron railings with wreathed handrail, column newel and plain balusters. Recessed double board doors with louvred lower panels and 2-pane overlight beneath segmental arch. Recessed relief panel above with painted Trinity House arms, crest and motto "Trinitas in Unitate". Deeply-recessed segmental- headed windows with projecting sills. Top section corbelled out to light inspection platform with plain railing. Cylindrical lantern with latticed glazing bars. Domed cupola with cylindrical ventilator. Built to replace Smeaton's High Lighthouse of 1771-6, demolished in 1895, and the Low Lighthouse of 1852 (qv). A prominent landmark, and one of the series of Humber Estuary lights which included lighthouses at Thorngumbald and South Killingholme (qv). Ceased operation in 1985. G de Boer, A History of the Spurn Lighthouses, East Yorkshire Local History Series No 24, 1968, pp 66-8.

Listing NGR: TA4034511239