Lamp Posts On The Esplanade Twenty Eight Lamp Posts is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1999. Lamp post.
Lamp Posts On The Esplanade Twenty Eight Lamp Posts
- WRENN ID
- crooked-clay-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1999
- Type
- Lamp post
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BRIGHTON
TQ3103NW MARINE PARADE 577-1/46/481 (South side) Twenty-eight lamp posts
GV II
Includes: Lamp posts on the Esplanade KING'S CLIFF. 28 street lamps between the Aquarium (qv) and Lewes Crescent. The cast-iron standards date from 1893; brackets and lamps were installed in the 1930s in copper and brass, but were replaced by angled lights in 1980, and then by fibreglass replicas of the 1930s design in 1982. Octagonal base narrowing towards the top, the sloping sides decorated with foliage ornament; then a knop with nailhead ornament, with a baluster form decorated with acanthus leaves above; then the column proper whose lower quarter is decorated with diagonal foliage sprays, the rest ribbed as far as 2 short maintenance arms; above the maintenance arms is a spreading basket capital. 2 curved brackets, the space between them filled with openwork ornament and surmounted by the borough's arms; from the brackets hang 2 octagonal spiked lanterns. (Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).
Listing NGR: TQ3146603904
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