Survey Data
Reg No
50010527
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Artistic, Technical
Original Use
Bollard
In Use As
Bollard
Date
1810 - 1830
Coordinates
315899, 234629
Date Recorded
05/10/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Pair of cast-iron lantern post bases and six cast-iron domed wheel-guards, erected c.1820, in front of GPO. Lantern bases positioned to either end of GPO portico with wheelguards positioned in front of each column of portico. Lantern post bases are on octagonal plan with fluted panels to each side, gadroon moulding and dome with eight webs having fluted detail and moulded octagonal finial. Wheel-guards have central rib and moulded collar in form of two scallops.
Appraisal
These items of street furniture enhance the setting of the GPO. The lantern post bases would have been powered with oil and installed soon after the building of the GPO. While the date of the wheel-guards is uncertain, the similar mouldings may suggest a similar date and now constitute a very rare example of early nineteenth-century street furniture, further enhancing what is already a site of national importance.