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Lamp Posts on the Esplanade Twenty Eight Lamp Posts

A Grade II Listed Building in Brighton and Hove, The City of Brighton and Hove

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.8198 / 50°49'11"N

Longitude: -0.135 / 0°8'6"W

OS Eastings: 531466

OS Northings: 103904

OS Grid: TQ314039

Mapcode National: GBR JP4.GPM

Mapcode Global: FRA B6LX.Z2Z

Plus Code: 9C2XRV97+WX

Entry Name: Lamp Posts on the Esplanade Twenty Eight Lamp Posts

Listing Date: 26 August 1999

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1381759

English Heritage Legacy ID: 482123

ID on this website: 101381759

Location: Brighton, Brighton and Hove, West Sussex, BN2

County: The City of Brighton and Hove

Electoral Ward/Division: Queen's Park

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Brighton and Hove

Traditional County: Sussex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Sussex

Church of England Parish: Kemp Town St Mary the Virgin

Church of England Diocese: Chichester

Tagged with: Streetlight

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Description



BRIGHTON

TQ3103NW MARINE PARADE
577-1/46/481 (South side)
Twenty-eight lamp posts

GV II

Includes: Lamp posts on the Esplanade KING'S CLIFF.
28 street lamps between the Aquarium (qv) and Lewes Crescent.
The cast-iron standards date from 1893; brackets and lamps
were installed in the 1930s in copper and brass, but were
replaced by angled lights in 1980, and then by fibreglass
replicas of the 1930s design in 1982. Octagonal base narrowing
towards the top, the sloping sides decorated with foliage
ornament; then a knop with nailhead ornament, with a baluster
form decorated with acanthus leaves above; then the column
proper whose lower quarter is decorated with diagonal foliage
sprays, the rest ribbed as far as 2 short maintenance arms;
above the maintenance arms is a spreading basket capital. 2
curved brackets, the space between them filled with openwork
ornament and surmounted by the borough's arms; from the
brackets hang 2 octagonal spiked lanterns.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).

Listing NGR: TQ3146603904

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