Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Water Tank at Tintern Station
Wye Valley, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Water Supply and Drainage
- Date of designation
- 29 September 2000
- Locality
- Tintern Parva
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Wye Valley
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.70335, -2.67042
- Cadw reference
- 24043
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On a meadow at a loop of the river Wye to N of Tintern Abbey.
History
The water tank was built in 1876 by the Monmouth and Wye Valley Railway which became a part of the Great Western Railway in 1908.
Exterior
The water tank is constructed of squared rock faced sandstone with a wrought iron water tank. Square stone base with a door on one side and a recessed panel to the front. The water tank is of 3 x 3 wrought iron plates which project slightly over the base.
Reason for designation
Included as a very rare surviving Victorian railway water tank and for its group value with the other buildings at Tintern station.
Nearby in the register
- Railway Signal Post at Tintern StationTransportunder 1 mi
- Tintern StationTransportunder 1 mi
- Signal Box at Tintern StationTransportunder 1 mi
- Name Board at Tintern StationTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.