Lamp post outside 61a Chandos Place

A gas street light comprising a column dated 1910, with an Upright Rochester lantern manufactured by William Sugg and Company Limited, probably installed 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, identified as model 1275 in the William Sugg catalogue and known as the 'Eddystone', 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. Additional plaques to the base bear the registration number (illegible) and the name of the column manufacturer: Revo Tipton. The lantern has a circular, weatherproof chimney above a teardrop-shaped glass enclosure with a drainage hole to its base. This glass enclosure contains a six-mantle burner and a Horstmann automatic gas controller that probably dates from the mid-C20. The main body is supported on a pair of upright arms, which project at right-angles from the cast iron control clock box and pass the horizontal enamelled steel reflector to provide the gas supply to the burner. These arms retain their original decorative ironwork scrolls, which were typical of inter-war Rochester lanterns, although the lower parts of these scrolls have been lost.