Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-box (01550 740200)
Llangadog, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 19 July 1999
- Locality
- Gwynfe
- Town
- Llangadog
- Community
- Llangadog
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.88162, -3.85737
- Cadw reference
- 22002
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 1860 "41. Caermathen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated by entry to Gwynfe churchyard in Gwynfe village.
History
Telephone call-box of the K6 design by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, first introduced by the GPO in 1936. This one of before 1953, made by the Carron Company, Stirlingshire.
Exterior
Telephone call-box, red-painted cast-iron kiosk with two glazed sides and wooden door with matching glazing. Glazing is in horizontal panes with narrow marginal panes. Raised plinth, raised surrounds to windows and doors and shallow-domed top. Top has illuminated lettered panels each side, under lunettes with George VI crown.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the church hall and church at Gwynfe
Nearby in the register
- Gwynfe Church HallReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of All SaintsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Pant Mawr with attached outbuilding and barnDomesticunder 1 mi
- Capel Jerusalem and attached outbuildingsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.