CRESSET FROM ST AGNES LIGHTHOUSE IN TRESCO ABBEY GARDENS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1219222
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1992
List Entry Name:: CRESSET FROM ST AGNES LIGHTHOUSE IN TRESCO ABBEY GARDENS
Statutory Address:: CRESSET FROM ST AGNES LIGHTHOUSE IN TRESCO ABBEY GARDENS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1219222
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1992
List Entry Name:: CRESSET FROM ST AGNES LIGHTHOUSE IN TRESCO ABBEY GARDENS
Statutory Address 1:: CRESSET FROM ST AGNES LIGHTHOUSE IN TRESCO ABBEY GARDENS

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CRESSET FROM ST AGNES LIGHTHOUSE IN TRESCO ABBEY GARDENS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Isles of Scilly (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Tresco
National Grid Reference:: SV 89447 14169

Details

TRESCO

SV8914 Cresset from St. Agnes Lighthouse, 1358-0/7/121 in Tresco Abbey Gardens

GV II

Cresset or firebasket from St. Agnes Lighthouse (q.v.). Cast iron. Two circular tapering reversed halves, upper part forming basket with bars to sides and opening for removal of ashes in solid lower part. Probably the only surviving lighthouse grate in the British Isles. (Hague D and Christie R: Lighthouses: Their Architecture, History and Archaeology: Llandysul: 1975-: 142-4).

Listing NGR: SV8944714169

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 62556
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hague, B, Christie, R, Lighthouses their Architecture History and Archaeology, (1975), 142-144
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 8 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.