Description

BRIGHTON

TQ2904SE KING'S ROAD
577-1/37/370 (South side)
Thirty-eight lamp posts on the
Esplanade

GV II

38 street lamps between the western borough boundary and the
Palace Pier (qv). The cast-iron standards date from 1893 and
are so dated on a tablet fixed to the standard by the West
Pier (qv); 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. The first 26 street lamps from the west stand on the
north and south sides of the Esplanade alternately; the rest
on the north side only apart from the thirty-second, which is
set back.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).

Listing NGR: TQ3002104164

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661758

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