Five Dolphin Lamp Posts On Embankment Between The Square And Rock Park is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1977. Lamp posts.
Five Dolphin Lamp Posts On Embankment Between The Square And Rock Park
- WRENN ID
- tangled-gateway-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1977
- Type
- Lamp posts
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BARNSTAPLE
SS5532 TAW VALE 684-1/4/228 (West side) 25/03/77 Five dolphin lamp posts on embankment between The Square and Rock Park (Formerly Listed as: TAW VALE (West side) 5 Dolphin lamp standards...parapet wall adj River Taw betw'n Square & Rock Park)
GV II
5 cast-iron lamp standards on stone pedestals. Probably mid C19. Limestone ashlar pedestals, oblong in section with moulded caps; red sandstone panels front and back, except where these have been replaced with electric light fittings. Iron lamp standards have 2 dolphins intertwined round the stem of a plant. On the base is moulded COALBROOKDALE. Tops have been replaced in late C20. HISTORICAL NOTE: Taw Vale was cut through in 1846. `Coalbrookdale' was the celebrated Coalbrookdale Company, founded by Abraham Darby at Ironbridge, Shropshire, in 1708. This design was made for the Victoria and Albert Embankments in London 1865-70.
Listing NGR: SS5598132795
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