Triple Lamp Standard Approximately 25 Metres To West Of South West Tower

WELLS

ST5545 CATHEDRAL GREEN 662-1/7/348 (North side) Triple lamp standard approx 25 metres to west of south-west tower

GV II

Lamp standard with triple head. c1900, signed Geo Smith & Co. Sun Foundry, Glasgow. Cast-iron on stone base. A cylindrical moulded base rises from and is in part enclosed by a stepped stone base with bevelled top: this carries a lofty slender tapered and banded shaft, with a fluted lower section and some palmate enrichment, to a moulded capital with a cross-arm to floriate scrolls and 3 overthrow arms to banded cylindrical pendant lamps with wide flared hood, and a hemispherical glass lamp protector. The overthrows are supported on and surmounted by thin wrought-iron scrolls, rising as a crowning pinnacle. The base has an applied cast plaque in honour of a former Dean, Patrick Mitchell. The standard was probably originally gas lit but has been changed to electricity. It is similar to, but not identical with, a standard in the Market Place (qv), and appears in a photograph of 1905. A fine example of C19 street furniture. (Scrase AJ: Wells, A Pictorial History: Plate 146: Gloucester: 1992-).

Listing NGR: ST5506145852