Description

HUMBERSIDE GLANFORD 5264

TA 11 NE SOUTH KILLINGHOLME TA 178 182

11/71 Killingholme High Lighthouse

GV II

Lighthouse. Established 1831, rebuilt 1876-7 for Trinity House. Brick, rendered and colourwashed. 6-storey tapered round tower, 30 metres high. Recessed plain door under timber lintel. Two recessed louvred openings to ground floor, two or three 12-pane sashes to 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th floors with projecting cills and recessed lintels. Moulded cornice supports balcony to top floor with plain iron railings. Top floor has plinth, incised band below cillband, wide east-facing window with vertical glazing bars. Ribbed dome with scalloped eaves, capped with cylindrical ventilator and weathervane. Stack rising from south side has stepped cornice and four cylindrical pots. Plaque on north side inscribed: THIS LIGHT HOUSE WAS ENLARGED AND REBUILT BY THE TRINITY HOUSE OF KINGSTON UPON HULL 1877 JOHN WILSON (WARDENS GEORGE HARRISON ( THE ONE AT S.E. WAS ERECTED IN 1836 WILLM COLLINSON (WARDENS GEORGE NALL ( AND THE ONE AT THE N.E. IN 1851 JOHN SUGDEN (WARDENS HUNTER ESTILL (

Lighthouse, no longer manned, is used in conjunction with the nearby Killingholme South Low Lighthouse to guide shipping in the Humber, and in the C19 was a link in the Hull Telegraph. D. Jackson, Lighthouses of England and Wales, 1975, 104-5.

Listing NGR: TA1783418214

External Links

• Killingholme High Lighthouse at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26397716

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)