Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-box to N of the Church of Saint Mary
Wiston, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Wiston, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, designated on 5 May 1992.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 5 May 1992
- Locality
- Wiston
- Town
- Haverfordwest
- Community
- Wiston
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.82574, -4.87093
- Cadw reference
- 13066
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)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 228 Haverfordwest (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the S side of the road through Wiston just N of the Church of Saint Mary.
History
Telephone kiosk of K6 type to standard design of 1936 by Sir George Gilbert Scott, this example installed after 1953. Embossed foundry plate of the Carron Company, Stirlingshire.
Exterior
Telephone kiosk, red-painted cast-iron with horizontal glazed panels to sides and timber door, with marginal glazing-bars. Raised surrounds to glazed sides and door, blank rear. Shallow domed roof of Soaneian type with 4 lunettes containing Elizabeth II embossed crowns over glazed panels lettered ''Telephone''.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the church and castle, all comprising a heritage location.
Nearby in the register
- House Platforms N of St. Mary's ChurchyardHouse Platformunder 1 mi
- Church of Saint MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Village Pump at WistonWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Outbuildings to S of Manor HouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.