Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee Commemorative Lamp Standard

Commemorative lamp standard 1897, the lantern was replaced in the late C20.

MATERIALS: a cast-iron lamp standard, mounted on a concrete base, with decorative cast-iron chain posts.

DESCRIPTION: the lamp standard stands on a square concrete base, surrounded by a narrow flower bed within a raised square concrete surround, with stylised cast-iron dolphins at each corner, supporting a spiked-chain. The lamp standard comprises a splayed pedestal with scroll feet, set on a base with concave faces and a beaded architrave. A crown flanked by the initials VR, with streaming ribbons to either side dated 1837 / 1897, is set between the scroll feet, with the maker's plate below that reads: KING and Co LIMITED / ENGINEERS / HULL. The front access panel is hinged at the base and displays a dedication that reads: 1837-1897 / IN COMMEMORATION OF THE / DIAMOND JUBILEE / OF HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY / JUNE 22ND 1897 / THROUGH THE INDEFATIGABE / EFORTS OF A LOYAL / & GENEROUS COMMITTEE / PRESIDENT. M. CHEVERTON-BROWN / VICE PRESIDENT. CHAS. THOMPSON / HON. TREASURER. CHAS. SIMPSON. / HON. SECS. J.T. WOOLLONS. L.S. KIDD. The side and rear panels of the pedestal have foliated decoration and a conduit pipe projects from the southern side. An ornate baroque-style base rises off the pedestal, formed of a baluster vase resting on a scroll foot base with fluted panels, supported by seashells over female heads with garlands in their hair, and the base of the shaft is flared and decorated with swags. The tapering fluted shaft has a rounded section and rises to a moulded architrave beneath a narrow foliate frieze, with two ladder rests and a projecting round cornice. An electric lamp is housed in a late-C20 'Windsor' style lantern, with a false flue forming a finial.