Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-box at the General Stores
Mathry, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Mathry, Pembrokeshire, designated on 15 July 1988.
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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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 209 St David's (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (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.