21BD. Off Main Street, Tatenhill, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire With thanks to AgentHalogen_87 for informing me of this Survivor. Situated within the churchyard for St Michael & All Angels Church is a cast iron column with top-entry swan neck bracket and a lantern from GEC's Z5560 range. As with the other churchyard Survivors covered previously, this light is likely to be switched manually from within the church itself, for use by visitors attending services after nightfall, though Main Street itself does not have any system of street lighting installed.

The column is of a slightly unusual design, and features a square base. A fluted cast iron column, supporting a Victorian-style "square-top" lantern, is visible in the background, on the other side of the road, and presumably, belongs to the property behind.

The Z5560 is fitted with a polycarbonate bowl that appears to be the Z6798 type more commonly seen used with the later Z5590 series lantern. Although the discoloured plastic makes seeing inside it difficult, there appears to be a glass refractor dome surrounding the lamp.

Where the current black paint finish applied to the metalwork has flaked away, an older green paint finish is revealed beneath.

A short length of ³/₄" BSP pipe couples the bracket's spigot cap to a Revo Tipton fuse box.

Another view of the installation, from the other direction.

The finial is an AC Ford design.

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