Lamp post outside 12 Cowley Street

A gas street light comprising an ornate column probably dating from the late C19, with a later extension shaft and 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 column with acanthus leaves at the base and floral mouldings and topped with an extension shaft and an Upright Rochester lantern. The tapered squared base of the column has an oval plaque number 6523 on one side and on the other, LCC (London County Council). 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 LIGHT’. This whole assembly is suspended in an iron cradle with two curved uprights projecting from the clock box. These uprights retain their original decorative ironwork scrolls, which were typical of inter-war Rochester lanterns.