The Gordon Lamp is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. Lamp post.
The Gordon Lamp
- WRENN ID
- hidden-parapet-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheltenham
- Constituency
- Cheltenham MP: Max Wilkinson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1983
- Type
- Lamp post
- Address
- The Gordon Lamp, Lansdown Road
- OS grid reference
- SO 943 217
- Coordinates
- 51.89448, -2.08385
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gordon Lamp is a lamp post located on Lansdown Road in Cheltenham, built in 1887 for gas and adapted for electricity between 1899 and 1900. It was funded by the residents of Montpellier in 1885, who wanted to enhance the area and create a memorial to General Gordon, with a commemorative tablet added in 1933 by the Scottish Society. The granite base was supplied by Fraser and Son of Aberdeen at a cost of £200.
The lamp post features a polished grey granite octagonal and moulded plinth, along with a red granite drum that has incised pilasters and white marble Corinthian capitals. The main structure is a tall fluted iron shaft supported by three putti holding torches, decorated with lotus and other motifs. The capital is topped with three branches that have enriched scrolled filling and pendant lamps, along with additional scrolled decorations forming finials. The tablet on the lamp post notes: "In memory of Major-General Charles George Gordon CBRE 1833-1885."
This lamp post is an outstanding example of late 19th-century street furniture.
Local climate
The Gordon Lamp receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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