Eighteen gas street lamps, Malvern Wells, Worcestershire

Summary

Eighteen cast-iron C19 gas street lamps, by various manufacturers.

Description

Lamp at NGR SO 7721141637
A tapering Foster and Pullen lantern supported on four scrolled brackets, set on a barley twist column above a moulded, studded ring and an octagonal lower column with foliate base. The ladder rest has twisted arms and moulded finials. Carries the stencilled number 49.

Lamp at NGR SO 7722741716
A tapering Windsor lantern supported on four scrolled brackets, set on a barley twist column above a moulded, studded ring. The octagonal lower column has a foliate base and is a modern replacement. The ladder rest has twisted arms and moulded finials. Carries the stencilled number 48.

Lamp at NGR SO 7724041782
A tapering Windsor lantern supported on four scrolled brackets, set on a barley twist column above a moulded, studded ring and an octagonal lower column with foliate base. The ladder rest has twisted arms and moulded finials. Carries the stencilled number 47.

Lamp at NGR SO 7724541857
A tapering Foster and Pullen lantern supported on four scrolled brackets, set on a barley twist column above a moulded, studded ring. The octagonal lower column has a foliate base. The ladder rest has twisted arms and moulded finials. By Dutton and Co. of Worcester; plinth is cast with the founder's mark. Carries the stencilled number 46.

Lamp at NGR SO 7724441953
A tapering lantern supported on four scrolled brackets, set on a barley twist column above a moulded, studded ring and an octagonal lower column with foliate base. The ladder rest has twisted arms and moulded finials. By Dutton and Co. of Worcester; plinth is cast with the founder's mark. Carries the stencilled number 45.

Lamp at NGR SO 7724542016
A tapering Windsor lantern supported on four scrolled brackets, set on a barley twist column above a moulded, studded ring and an octagonal lower column with foliate base. The ladder rest, of which one arm is missing, has a twisted arm and moulded finial. Carries the stencilled number 44.

Lamp at NGR SO 7718642025
A tapering Foster and Pullen lantern supported on four scrolled brackets, set on a barley twist column above a moulded, studded ring and an octagonal lower column with foliate base. The ladder rest has twisted arms and moulded finials. Carries the stencilled number 43.

Lamp at NGR SO 7722442076
A tapering Foster and Pullen lantern supported on four scrolled brackets set on a barley twist column above a moulded, studded ring and an octagonal lower column with foliate base. The ladder rest has twisted arms and moulded finials. By Dutton and Co. of Worcester; plinth is cast with the founder's mark. Carries the stencilled number 42.

Lamp at NGR SO 7720342138
A tapering Foster and Pullen lantern supported on four scrolled brackets set on a barley twist column above a moulded, studded ring and an octagonal lower column with foliate base. The ladder rest has twisted arms and moulded finials. By Dutton and Co. of Worcester; plinth is cast with the founder's mark. Carries the stencilled number 41.

Lamp at NGR SO 7718442179
A tapering Windsor lantern supported on four scrolled brackets, set on a barley twist column above a moulded, studded ring. The octagonal lower column has a foliate base. The ladder rest has twisted arms and moulded finials. By Dutton and Co. of Worcester; plinth is cast with the founder's mark. Carries the stencilled number 40.

Lamp at NGR SO 7714842215
A tapering Foster and Pullen lantern supported on four scrolled brackets set on a tapering octagonal column with a heavily-moulded, octagonal ring. The moulded base is set on an octagonal plinth with chamfered and stepped stops. The ladder rest is octagonal with octagonal knop finials. By G Evans, Piston Foundry, Worcester; plinth is cast with the founder's mark. Carries the stencilled number 39. Possibly re-located.

Lamp at NGR SO 7715942254
A tapering Windsor lantern supported on four scrolled brackets, set on a barley twist column above a moulded, studded ring. The octagonal lower column has a foliate base. The ladder rest has twisted arms and moulded finials. By Dutton and Co. of Worcester; plinth is cast with the founder's mark. Carries the stencilled number 38.

Lamp at NGR SO 7712642293
A tapering Foster and Pullen lantern supported on four scrolled brackets, set on a barley twist column above a moulded, studded ring. The octagonal lower column has a foliate base. The ladder rest has twisted arms and moulded finials. By Dutton and Co. of Worcester; plinth is cast with the founder's mark. Carries the stencilled number 37.

Lamp at NGR SO 7706742311
A tapering Windsor lantern supported on four scrolled brackets set on a barley twist column above a moulded, studded ring and an octagonal lower column with foliate base. The ladder rest has twisted arms and moulded finials. By Dutton and Co. of Worcester; plinth is cast with the founder's mark. Carries the stencilled number 36.

Lamp at NGR SO 7712642371
A tapering Foster and Pullen lantern supported on four scrolled brackets set on a tapering circular column with a capital with foliate design in relief. It has a baluster-shaped base with similar foliate decoration in relief, set on a circular plinth with moulded top and reeded foot. The ladder rest is elaborately moulded with scroll arms. Carries the stencilled number 35.

Lamp at NGR SO 7715642389
A tapering Windsor lantern supported on four scrolled brackets set on a tapering octagonal column with a heavily-moulded, octagonal ring. The moulded base is set on an octagonal plinth with chamfered and stepped stops. The ladder rest is octagonal with octagonal knop finials. Carries the stencilled number 34.

Lamp at NGR SO 7717142410
A tapering Windsor lantern supported on four scrolled brackets, set on a barley twist column above a moulded, studded ring. The octagonal lower column has a foliate base. The ladder rest has twisted arms and moulded finials. Carries the stencilled number 33.

Lamp at NGR SO 7719442472
A tapering Foster and Pullen lantern supported on four scrolled brackets set on a barley twist column above a moulded, studded ring and an octagonal lower column with foliate base. The ladder rest has twisted arms and moulded finials. Carries the stencilled number 32.

History

In 1851, permission was given for the building of a gas works at Sherrards Green in Malvern, the first to be built in the town. It opened in 1856, with the capacity to serve around 500 houses in the vicinity, as well as 200 street lamps. Further gas plants were opened around the town, and eventually all of Malvern, even remote locations, was provided with gas street lighting. In 1872, a lamplighter was paid 14s a week to light the lamps each evening. In total there were around 250 lamps, of which around 100 are still lit by gas, with a hand-wound clockwork mechanism to light them automatically. A further 125 have been converted to electric lighting; there are some replica lamp posts, and a few have been tapped off or lost entirely. The lamps were cast by a number of foundries, many of which were local, others much further afield, including Sheffield and Manchester. The lanterns were supplied by William Sugg & Company which was founded in London in 1837 to provide elements for gas lighting, and Foster and Pullen Ltd of Bradford.

Of the 18 lamps on Holywell Road all but one were installed here in the C19; the lamp at NGR SO 7714842215 appears to have been re-located to Holywell Road in the early C21. They were renovated in 2011-12

Reasons for Listing

The eighteen C19 gas street lamps on Holywell Road are designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Design quality: the lamp standards, which are of several styles, are well cast and elegantly designed;
* Technological: they illustrate a technology which once transformed everyday existence;
* Group value: they form a functionally-related and co-visual group along the road;
* Historic interest: as part of an extensive network of similar gas-lit street lamps which survive across Malvern.

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