Lamp post outside 11 Gayfere Street

A gas street light comprising a column dating from the 1830s, with a later extension shaft and a Rochester-type lantern installed probably around 1930.

MATERIALS: cast iron lamp post with a glazed lantern of iron, spun copper and enamelled steel.

DESCRIPTION: the lamp post consists of a tapering fluted column and topped with an extension shaft and an Upright Rochester lantern. The tapered square and horizontally reeded base has an oval plaque number 6565 on one side and the Westminster City Council crest on the other. Below this, an additional plaque bears the name of the column manufacturer: T Edge. The lantern has a circular drum and rain-shield of copper above an inverted, six-mantle burner in a teardrop-shaped glass enclosure with a drainage hole to its base an enamelled steel reflector. This whole assembly is suspended in an iron cradle with two curved uprights projecting from the clock box. These uprights retain most of their original decorative ironwork scrolls, which were typical of inter-war Rochester lanterns.