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Bishop Rock Lighthouse

lighthouse on its islet in the Atlantic Ocean, at the Isles of Scilly, England
Place lighthouse Q59082596

Facts

29 properties

Designation

Instance of
lighthouse
Heritage designation
Grade II listed building (1992–present)

Location

Country
United Kingdom[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 49.872°, -6.445°[13]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Isles of Scilly[2]

Period and style

Inception
1858[11]
Architect
James Nicholas Douglass, James Walker[5][6]
Height
49.0
Made from material
granite[8]
Significant event
electrification, automatization, stiffening (1887–present)[17][18][19]
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Located in
Isles of Scilly
Part of
Isles of Scilly[9]
Color
white[10]
Coordinates
🗺️ 49.872°, -6.445°
Described by source
Akademi Kernewek's Place Names
Focal height
44.0
Historic county
Cornwall
Light characteristic
Fl(2) W 15s
Lighthouse range
20.0
Located in or next to body of water
North Atlantic Ocean[4]
Located in/on physical feature
Bishop Rock[15]
Luminous intensity
60000.0
Native label
Bishop Rock Lighthouse
OS grid reference
SV8070706442[12]
Operator
Trinity House[7]
Racon signal
T
Service entry
1887[16]
Structural engineer
James Walker[14]
Type of lens
hyperradiant Fresnel lens
🏷️ Also known as
en Bishop Rock Lighthouse it Faro di Bishop Rock
🔖 Identifiers · 15
VIAF cluster ID
5154327908726850818
Library of Congress authority ID
sh2017004004
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Bishop Rock Lighthouse - Isles of Scilly.jpg ↗
ARLHS lighthouse ID
ENG010
Admiralty number
A0002
British Listed Buildings ID
101292068
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Bishop-Rock-Lighthouse
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/11bc6smr2m
MMSI
992351137
MarineTraffic Lighthouse ID
1000004530
NGA lighthouse ID
114-4
National Heritage List for England number
1292068
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National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007407553605171
Online List of Lights ID
1
Structurae structure ID
20014297

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Architect 2
James Walker, James Nicholas Douglass
Significant event 2
electrification, stiffening
Color 1
white
Country 1
United Kingdom
Described by source 1
Akademi Kernewek's Place Names
Historic county 1
Cornwall
Instance of 1
lighthouse
Located in or next to body of water 1
North Atlantic Ocean
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Isles of Scilly
Located in/on physical feature 1
Bishop Rock
Made from material 1
granite
Operator 1
Trinity House
Part of 1
Isles of Scilly
Structural engineer 1
James Walker
Type of lens 1
hyperradiant Fresnel lens
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Summary

Bishop Rock Lighthouse is a lighthouse[1].

Body

Designation and Status

Its heritage designation is recorded as Grade II listed building[20].

Related Entities

Akademi Kernewek's Place Names United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . trinityhouse.co.uk. Retrieved . trinityhouse.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . National Heritage List for England. wikidata.org.
  7. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . trinityhouse.co.uk. Retrieved . trinityhouse.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . National Heritage List for England. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . trinityhouse.co.uk. Retrieved . trinityhouse.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . trinityhouse.co.uk. Retrieved . trinityhouse.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . trinityhouse.co.uk. trinityhouse.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . National Heritage List for England. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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