Pair of obelisk Lamp Stands to SW of Law Courts is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 1999. Lamp stands.

Pair of obelisk Lamp Stands to SW of Law Courts

WRENN ID
still-keystone-vetch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 April 1999
Type
Lamp stands
Address
Pair of obelisk Lamp Stands to SW of Law Courts, Castle
OS grid reference
ST 181 767
Coordinates
51.48406, -3.18004
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This listing describes a pair of lamp stands made of Portland stone, located to the southwest of the Law Courts. Each lamp stand features an obelisk on a pedestal. At the base of the obelisks, there is ironwork displaying the Cardiff arms on the front. The sides of the lamp stands are adorned with the prows of ships, which have griffin and wyvern figureheads. The heads of these figureheads support lamp stands.

Local climate

Pair of obelisk Lamp Stands to SW of Law Courts sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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