Description

TOTLAND

SZ38NW
1354-0/4/308

Needles Lighthouse

II

Lighthouse. 1859 by James Walker, consultant engineer to
Trinity House, replacing an earlier lighthouse which stood on
the cliff top. Built of granite masonry. 33.25 metres high of
uniform diameter with an unevenly stepped base. Although the
tower has no taper the walls vary from 1.07 metres in
thickness at the bottom to 0.61 metres at the top.
Battlemented parapet.
(Douglas B. Hague and Rosemary Christie: Lighthouses their
Architecture, History and Archaeology: 98 AND 131).

Listing NGR: SZ2895484811

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Needles Lighthouse at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5856530

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