Two Dragon And Onion Lamp Posts To West Of Church Of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. Lamp post.
Two Dragon And Onion Lamp Posts To West Of Church Of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- long-keep-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheltenham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1983
- Type
- Lamp post
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CHELTENHAM
SO9422NE CHURCH STREET 630-1/9/245 Two `Dragon and Onion' lamp posts to 14/12/83 west of Church of St Mary (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET Dragon and Onion lamp post about 5 yards north-west of St Mary's Church)
GV II
2 lamp posts. First lit 6th February 1897. Probably designed by the Borough Engineer, Joseph Hall and cast by Messrs McDowall, Stevens and Company Ltd, London and Glasgow. Cast-iron. Bollard with half-bollards with shield and the town's motto 'Salubritas and Eruditio'. Arched lamp-holder and dragon infill with crowning onion finial. Intended for electricity, and thus an early and remarkably elaborate example of its type. HISTORICAL NOTE: Cost »9.15s.0d. The motif is taken from the coat of arms of the borough, granted to the town 11 years after its incorporation in 1876. Moved to present position, probably from the High Street. Forms a group with 3 'Dragon and Onion' lamp-posts to south of Church of St Mary. There are other examples in Cambray Place (qv) and Trafalgar Street (qv). (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 7; Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 67).
Listing NGR: SO9480022537
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