Triple Lamp Standard Adjacent to Boundary Wall Opposite Wells Museum is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 2000. Lamp standard.
Triple Lamp Standard Adjacent to Boundary Wall Opposite Wells Museum
- WRENN ID
- cold-cobble-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 2000
- Type
- Lamp standard
- OS grid reference
- ST 550 459
- Coordinates
- 51.21066, -2.64454
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The triple lamp standard, dating from around 1860, is located adjacent to the boundary wall opposite Wells Museum on Cathedral Green in Wells. It is signed by Felix Thomas from Weston-super-Mare and features a cast-iron structure on a stone base. The lamp standard has a cylindrical moulded base that rises from a stepped stone base with a bevelled top. This base supports a tall, slender, tapered shaft that is banded and leads to a moulded capital.
From the capital, three overthrow arms extend to hold banded cylindrical pendant lamps, each with a wide flared hood and a hemispherical glass lamp protector. The overthrows are supported by thin wrought-iron scrolls that rise to form a crowning pinnacle. The stone base is positioned against the low boundary wall at the top of the ramp leading to the west front of the Cathedral. Originally gas-lit, this lamp standard is identical to another located in St Cuthbert Street and is documented in a photograph from 1905. It is a notable example of 19th-century street furniture.
Local climate
Triple Lamp Standard Adjacent to Boundary Wall Opposite Wells Museum receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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