Off Main Road, Hathersage, Derbyshire Dales Located on the roadway leading to Hathersage Methodist Church is a fluted cast iron column topped with a Revo swan neck and an A42 'Prefect' lantern, for a 100 - 200 Watt GLS (incandescent tungsten filament), or a 50 - 125 Watt MBF (mercury vapour), lamp, although being in private ownership (probably belonging to the church itself), this example is fitted with a compact fluorescent lamp these days. The installation is in a good state of repair, and may remain in operable condition.
The column is likely to be somewhat older than the bracket and lantern is, and may have supported a gas lantern originally.
The lack of rusting to the swan neck, despite the paintwork having flaked heavily, suggests that it could be aluminium, rather than cast iron and steel, as an earlier swan neck would have been.
A toughened glass bowl surrounds the lamp.
The swan neck also adds much-needed height to the overall installation - with a lantern fitted directly to the column spigot, the light spread would be somewhat reduced (not to mention that the gas source would be far dimmer anyway).
No finial or elbow is fitted to accommodate the top-entry lantern on the swan neck - the pipe work is bent to face downwards; thus, no top-entry converters are required.
The lamp employed appears to be a higher wattage type - this is probably a necessity, given that the roadway has no other lighting installed along it.
The bowl is relatively free of dirt accumulation.
The 'Revo - Tipton' fuse box cover is secured with three wing nuts.
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