Coordinates: | 51.3908°N 1.3781°W |
Yearbuilt: | 1828 (first) 1955 (second) |
Height: | 20m (70feet) |
Focalheight: | 18m (59feet) |
Characteristic: | continuous red light |
Margate Lighthouse is a lighthouse on the end of Margate harbour arm in Kent.[1]
This lighthouse was designed by the architect William Edmunds and was completed in 1829.[2] It was destroyed in the North Sea flood of 1953.[3] The design was a round Doric column similar to the lighthouse at Whitby.[3]
A replacement lighthouse with an octagonal column was built in 1955.[1] [3] This lighthouse features on the series G Bank of England £20 note along with the Turner Contemporary.[4]