Lamp post adjacent to 48 Tufton Street

A gas street light comprising a column dating from the 1830s with a Rochester-type lantern manufactured by William Sugg and Company, 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 column with and topped with an extension shaft and an Upright Rochester lantern. The tapered square and horizontally reeded base has an oval plaque number 6506 on one side and on the other side the letters St I E W. Below this, an additional plaque bears the name of the column manufacturer: PEARSE. 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 with the lettering ‘SUGG GAS LAMP’. In addition, there is an added hexagonal metal extension acting as a light reflector. This whole assembly is suspended in an iron cradle with two curved uprights projecting from the clock box. These uprights retain some of their original decorative ironwork scrolls, which were typical of inter-war Rochester lanterns.