194AG. Off Wellington Road, Bollington, Cheshire Installed adjacent the steps leading up to Saint Gregory's Catholic Church is a 15 ft (5 m) 'Estate Minor' column made by Concrete Utilities, and topped with a Falks 'Beaufort' lantern; the installation dating from the 1960s, in all likelihood. No other lighting isprovided in the church grounds, making this a very useful installation to anyone traversing the site after nightfall.

With thanks to the groundsman clearing the leaves away for allowing me to take the following photographs.

A length of cable is seen entering the lantern from the top of the column - the cable originates at the adjacent presbytery, and suggests that the original underground supply cable has failed, or maybe even that one was never installed.

When new, the lantern would have featured a small Perspex bowl around the lamp, or a Perspex cone that extended the full length of the inside of the lantern. Whatever the case, this is long gone now, with just the bare lamp remaining in the centre.

The column uses the familiar Concrete Utilities' "drop-latch" door.

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