Lamp Post Approximately 6 Metres North of North Door to Nave of Church of St Edward, King and Martyr is a Grade II listed building in the North West Leicestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1989. Lamp-post.
Lamp Post Approximately 6 Metres North of North Door to Nave of Church of St Edward, King and Martyr
- WRENN ID
- muted-garret-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North West Leicestershire
- Constituency
- North West Leicestershire MP: Amanda Hack (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1989
- Type
- Lamp-post
- OS grid reference
- SK 446 273
- Coordinates
- 52.84182, -1.33787
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a lamp-post located approximately 6 meters north of the north door to the nave of the Church of St Edward, King and Martyr in Castle Donington. It dates from the mid-19th century and is made of cast iron. The lamp-post features an octagonal shaft that stands on a moulded base, adorned with blind tracery panels. It has an octagonal moulded cross bar and a foliated capital, although the lantern is missing. This lamp-post is one of a set of three in the churchyard and is included for its group value.
Local climate
Lamp Post Approximately 6 Metres North of North Door to Nave of Church of St Edward, King and Martyr sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Lamp Post Approximately 4 Metres to South of South Porch of Church of St Edward, King and Martyr
- 2 Lamp Post Approximately 10 Metres to North West of Tower of Church of St Edward, King and Martyr
- 3 Lamp Post in Churchyard by North Gate
- 4 Lamp Post Opposite Stable Block to Castle Hill House
- 5 Lamp Post Approximately 5 Metres South of Porch of Church of St Andrew
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings