Lamp columns to Clarence Esplanade

Lamp columns. Erected in around the early C20 probably by Drew-Bear, Ransome and Perks, Engineers, London.

MATERIALS: cast-iron columns with glass lanterns.

DESCRIPTION: twenty-one lamp columns spaced at intervals. Each a tall round column with an ornate fluted pedestal with a moulded base and cap upon which is set a bulbous iron leaf motif surmounted by a further fluted column, then the main cast-iron column which has a Corinthian capital two-thirds up. The top of the column is surmounted by ornate moulded and fretted ironwork with the Portsmouth City crest at the centre and paired swan neck arms supporting two lanterns. Original lanterns are hexagonal iron-framed glass lanterns. The pedestal of the columns hold the manufacturers plate and another Portsmouth city crest. Some of the lamp columns have broken, missing or replacement parts. These lamp columns are currently (2022) numbered 42 to 62.