Latitude: 49.8729 / 49°52'22"N
Longitude: -6.4455 / 6°26'43"W
OS Eastings: 80707
OS Northings: 6442
OS Grid: SV807064
Mapcode National: GBR BYG0.QGL
Mapcode Global: VGYC8.7GD9
Plus Code: 8CXMVHF3+5R
Entry Name: Bishop Rock Lighthouse
Listing Date: 14 December 1992
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1292068
English Heritage Legacy ID: 62446
ID on this website: 101292068
Location: Bishop Rock, off Isles of Scilly, Cornwall
County: Isles of Scilly
Civil Parish: St. Agnes
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall
Tagged with: Lighthouse
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ST. AGNES
Bishop Rock Lighthouse
II
Tower lighthouse. c1852-1858 by James Walker; encased and heightened in 1883 by James Douglass, superintending engineer.
MATERIALS: Granite ashlar; metal cupola.
EXTERIOR: Circular plan to tapering six-stage tower. Boarded door and small windows. Bracketed gallery beneath lattice light with conical roof.
HISTORY: Replaced a cast-iron tower of 1849 destroyed in 1850. The tallest and best-known tower lighthouse in the British Isles.
SOURCES: Hague D and Christie R, Lighthouses: Their Architecture, History and Archaeology, 1975, 130-1.
Listing NGR: SV8070706442
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