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Latitude: 52.111 / 52°6'39"N
Longitude: -2.3282 / 2°19'41"W
OS Eastings: 377622
OS Northings: 245904
OS Grid: SO776459
Mapcode National: GBR 0FN.L6S
Mapcode Global: VH934.L6KJ
Plus Code: 9C4V4M6C+CP
Entry Name: Eight Gas Street Lamps in the Churchyard of the Priory Church of St Mary and St Michael
Listing Date: 7 November 2001
Last Amended: 28 September 2011
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1389554
English Heritage Legacy ID: 488240
ID on this website: 101389554
Location: Priory Church of St Mary and St Michael, Great Malvern, Malvern Hills, Worcestershire, WR14
County: Worcestershire
District: Malvern Hills
Civil Parish: Malvern
Built-Up Area: Great Malvern
Traditional County: Worcestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Worcestershire
Church of England Parish: Great Malvern
Church of England Diocese: Worcester
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Eight gas street lamps from the mid to late-C19.
Eight gas street lamps within the churchyard, of various designs all with copper lanterns. Mid to late C19. Six have cast-iron columns. Four made by the Horsley Co. of Tipton have octagonal columns with rings, octagonal bases and caps, and double ladder rests. One by Dutton & Co. of Worcester, has a barley-sugar twist column and a missing ladder rest. One made by Hamilton Woods & Co. of Manchester has a fluted octagonal column and slender ladder rests. Two further gas lamps sit atop the sandstone piers opposite the north entrance to the priory. They have four curved iron brackets with leaf decoration. All are fitted with Sugg Windsor lanterns and are complete and working.
Modern street lighting, in the form of gas lamps, arrived in England at Pall Mall, London in the early C19. There followed a proliferation of cast-iron gas lamp posts in a prodigious range of designs, some highly ornamental.
The first gas works in Malvern opened in 1856 and in 1909, it was reported by the town surveyor and engineer, Mr W. Osborne Thorpe, that Malvern was lit solely by 1,120 gas lamps all fitted with incandescent burners. There are historical references to ‘a George Hammons being paid 14/- per week to operate the lamps twice a day’.
Architectural interest: the lively and varied design of the gas lamps with features including barley sugar twist and fluting;
Intactness: they survive largely intact and in their original position as working gas lamps;
Group value: part of an extensive group of gas street lamps in Malvern, many of which are listed.
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