Spurn Lighthouse
SPURN LIGHTHOUSE, SPURN POINT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083476
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Spurn Lighthouse
- Statutory Address:
- SPURN LIGHTHOUSE, SPURN POINT
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083476
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Spurn Lighthouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPURN LIGHTHOUSE, SPURN POINT
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SPURN LIGHTHOUSE, SPURN POINT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Easington
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 40345 11239
Details
EASINGTON SPURN POINT TA 41 SW 14/6 Spurn Lighthouse GV II Lighthouse. 1893-5 by Thomas Matthews for Trinity House. Brick, painted, on concrete base. Tapered round tower with entrance to west. 6 storeys, surmounted by lantern; overall height approximately 36 metres. High chamfered plinth. Flight of 5 stone steps flanked by cast- and wrought-iron railings with wreathed handrail, column newel and plain balusters. Recessed double board doors with louvred lower panels and 2-pane overlight beneath segmental arch. Recessed relief panel above with painted Trinity House arms, crest and motto "Trinitas in Unitate". Deeply-recessed segmental- headed windows with projecting sills. Top section corbelled out to light inspection platform with plain railing. Cylindrical lantern with latticed glazing bars. Domed cupola with cylindrical ventilator. Built to replace Smeaton's High Lighthouse of 1771-6, demolished in 1895, and the Low Lighthouse of 1852 (qv). A prominent landmark, and one of the series of Humber Estuary lights which included lighthouses at Thorngumbald and South Killingholme (qv). Ceased operation in 1985. G de Boer, A History of the Spurn Lighthouses, East Yorkshire Local History Series No 24, 1968, pp 66-8.
Listing NGR: TA4034511239
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 166547
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
De Boer, G, East Yorkshire History Series in A History of the Spurn Lighthouses, Vol. 24, (1968), 66-68
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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