Lamp Post Near South Porch of St Mary's Church is a Grade II listed building in the Chesterfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1976. Lamp post.
Lamp Post Near South Porch of St Mary's Church
- WRENN ID
- heavy-finial-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chesterfield
- Constituency
- Chesterfield MP: Mr Toby Perkins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1976
- Type
- Lamp post
- Address
- Lamp Post Near South Porch of St Mary's Church, St Mary's Gate
- OS grid reference
- SK 385 711
- Coordinates
- 53.23589, -1.42458
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lamp post near the south porch of St Mary's Church was erected in 1824 and is notable for being the first gas street lamp in Chesterfield. Originally, it was located at the corner of the Market Place and was supplied with gas from a cellar beneath the former Cathedral Vaults. The lamp post is made of cast iron and features a square chamfered plinth. From this base rises a fluted column with a bulbous base that is adorned with leaf mouldings. The lamp is topped with a finial.
Local climate
Lamp Post Near South Porch of St Mary's Church receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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