Richardson Candle group at St Catharine's College and northern Trumpington Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 2011. Street lamp.
Richardson Candle group at St Catharine's College and northern Trumpington Street
- WRENN ID
- nether-step-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 2011
- Type
- Street lamp
- Address
- Richardson Candle group at St Catharine's College and northern Trumpington Street, Two Wall-Mounted Richardson Candles Attached to St Catharine's College, and Five Richardson Candle Lamp-Posts Outside No.S 39 and 56, St Botolph's Church, Pembroke College Old Court and Master's Lodge and Two Outside Corpus Christi College
- OS grid reference
- TL 448 582
- Coordinates
- 52.20337, 0.11764
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Richardson Candles are street lamps located at St Catharine's College and along northern Trumpington Street in Cambridge. Designed by Sir Albert Richardson in 1957 specifically for the city, these lamps were manufactured by the REVO electrical company. Each lamp features a vertical, tubular lantern made of translucent glass, which houses three or four fluorescent tubes. The lantern is topped and bottomed with simple cast-iron capping and base, and it is mounted on a slim, fluted column made of bronze-coloured cast-iron.
Local climate
Richardson Candle group at St Catharine's College and northern Trumpington Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No sale records on file
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Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Four Richardson Candles outside no.s 10, 16, 19 and opposite 19 Trumpington Street
- 2 Richardson Candle group in St Johns Street and north Trinity Street
- 3 Five wall-mounted Richardson Candles in Kings Parade
- 4 Richardson Candle street lamp on the south-east corner of Silver Street.
- 5 Richardson Candle wall mounted lamps attached to 16, 19, 24, 27, 35 and 38 Trinity Street
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- Corpus Christi College, New Buildings
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- Two Lamp Posts at the Main Entrance to the College, St Catharine's College
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- King's College, Scott's Building
- Corpus Christi College, The Buildings Surrounding the Old and New Courts Including the Master's Lodge
- The Railings, Piers, Gateway and Screen Wall on the East Side of Principal Court, St Catharines College
- Corpus Christi College, Four Lamp Standards in New Court
- 1, King's Parade
- Church of St Bene't