Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-box at the General Stores
Mathry, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 15 July 1988
- Community
- Mathry
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94622, -5.08763
- Cadw reference
- 12938
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on pavement in front of General Stores opposite NW corner of churchyard.
History
Telephone Call-box of K6-type. Square red kiosk, cast-iron to standard design of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, architect. Design introduced 1936, this example made before 1952.
Exterior
12938
Domed roof with 4 lunettes containing embossed George VI crowns over red-lettered illuminated panel and ventilation slits. Raised surrounds to door and sides, marginal glazing bars to horizontal (perspex) panels. Moulded plinth, blank rear.
Reason for designation
Included for central location within conservation area.
Nearby in the register
- Two Pre-Norman Gravestones in ChurchyardCross-marked stoneunder 1 mi
- Church of the Holy MartyrsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding to E.of High RoostDomesticunder 1 mi
- Churchyard Wall at Church of the Holy MartyrsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.