226. Salisbury Cathedral, The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire Installed around the Cathedral grounds are a number of lights that have survived by their being in private ownership, with many of these installations featuring GEC Z5590 lanterns.

This cast iron column, positioned alongside an equally veteran K6 Telephone Kiosk, is one of several on Chorister's Square.

An ornate top-entry bracket connects the lantern to the column.

The former manual hand switch control, for activating the lantern at dusk, and deactivating it at dawn, remains in place, although as a Royce Thompson photocell is attached to the lantern canopy, the manual control is no longer used.

An identical installation exists on the other side of the Square.

The lamp types of these lanterns is unknown, although I suspect that they would have run tungsten filament (GLS) lamps originally.

This example also uses photocell control these days (just out of sight in this view).

A wall-mounted example was nearby.

This further wall-mounted example was to be found down The Bridle Path.

The fact that this portion of the lantern's bowl is wrapped in black duct tape (as an anti-glare measure) means that it will not provide any light to the passageway that it is installed to illuminate anyway.

This wall-mounted ELECO 'Welwyn' is situated on the corner of North Walk and Rosemary Lane.

A poorly-fitting LED 'corn' lamp has been fitted as a substitute to the GLS lamps that it would have used originally.

A Hy-lite HL4 photocell attached to a small electrical enclosure on the wall switches the lantern.

Further down the wall, this cast iron box houses the fused cut-out.

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