164AA. Mill Street, Kineton, Warwickshire With thanks to Dwight for informing me of this Survivor. Attached to a property at the junction with Mill Lane using a wall bracket based on a swan neck is a mystery top-entry lantern of the same type seen on Roushill, Shrewsbury (it may be a BTH product). The installation is likely to have survived thanks to its wall-mount nature, and potential difficulty in converting it to accommodate a side-entry lantern. I had wondered if it was within the Kineton Conservation Area too; however, it isn't.
The metalwork, including the conduit housing the supply cable (not visible here, owing to the surrounding climbing plants) is painted light grey, and looks relatively fresh.
The modified bracket looks to be a Revo design.
As with the Shrewsbury example, this lantern features a distinctive glass refractor bowl that has both a straight vertical section, as well as a slightly tapering section.
The bowl support ring is semi-permanently attached to the lantern canopy using a split pin arrangement.
The initial outreach of this bracket is probably to allow it to be positioned around the overhang of a typical roof; however, as this facility is not used here, the extra bending seems slightly superfluous. The detector for a miniature photocell is visible on the lantern's canopy.
Another example exists on the adjacent Banbury Street; however, the lantern here is a far more modern D.W. Windsor Iffley.
The Iffley makes for a reasonable modern replacement of the older lantern type, but still lacks something of the gracefulness of the earlier product.
The bracket terminates into a double-sided Revo fuse box, with the supply cable terminating into a further enclosure beneath.
The extra box may have housed a time switch originally.
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