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Latitude: 53.6472 / 53°38'49"N
Longitude: -0.2188 / 0°13'7"W
OS Eastings: 517834
OS Northings: 418214
OS Grid: TA178182
Mapcode National: GBR VVX8.FB
Mapcode Global: WHHHB.ML0C
Plus Code: 9C5XJQWJ+VF
Entry Name: Killingholme High Lighthouse
Listing Date: 17 October 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1103706
English Heritage Legacy ID: 165871
Also known as: Killingholme High Range Light
ID on this website: 101103706
Location: North Lincolnshire, DN40
County: North Lincolnshire
Civil Parish: South Killingholme
Traditional County: Lincolnshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lincolnshire
Church of England Parish: North and South Killingholme St Denys
Church of England Diocese: Lincoln
Tagged with: Lighthouse
HUMBERSIDE
GLANFORD
5264
TA 11 NE SOUTH KILLINGHOLME
TA 178 182
11/71 Killingholme High
Lighthouse
GV II
Lighthouse. Established 1831, rebuilt 1876-7 for Trinity House. Brick,
rendered and colourwashed. 6-storey tapered round tower, 30 metres high.
Recessed plain door under timber lintel. Two recessed louvred openings to
ground floor, two or three 12-pane sashes to 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th floors
with projecting cills and recessed lintels. Moulded cornice supports
balcony to top floor with plain iron railings. Top floor has plinth,
incised band below cillband, wide east-facing window with vertical glazing
bars. Ribbed dome with scalloped eaves, capped with cylindrical ventilator
and weathervane. Stack rising from south side has stepped cornice and four
cylindrical pots. Plaque on north side inscribed:
THIS LIGHT HOUSE
WAS ENLARGED AND REBUILT BY THE
TRINITY HOUSE
OF KINGSTON UPON HULL 1877
JOHN WILSON (WARDENS
GEORGE HARRISON (
THE ONE AT S.E. WAS ERECTED IN 1836
WILLM COLLINSON (WARDENS
GEORGE NALL (
AND THE ONE AT THE N.E. IN 1851
JOHN SUGDEN (WARDENS
HUNTER ESTILL (
Lighthouse, no longer manned, is used in conjunction with the nearby
Killingholme South Low Lighthouse to guide shipping in the Humber, and in
the C19 was a link in the Hull Telegraph. D. Jackson, Lighthouses of
England and Wales, 1975, 104-5.
Listing NGR: TA1783418214
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