Lamp post on corner of 13 Gayfere Street and 1 Smith Square

A gas street light comprising a 1910 Eddystone column with a Rochester-type lantern manufactured by Sugg Lighting Limited in the later C20.

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, ‘Eddystone’ column topped with an Upright Rochester lantern. The base of the column has the Westminster City Council crest on one side and on the other, the royal cypher G V R and a date of 1910. The replacement lantern has a circular drum and rain-shield above an inverted, six-mantle burner in a teardrop-shaped glass enclosure with a drainage hole to its base. The assembly is suspended in an iron cradle with two, curved stabilising uprights projecting from the clock box.