Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Railway Signal Post at Tintern Station
Wye Valley, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 29 September 2000
- Locality
- Tintern Parva
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Wye Valley
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.70329, -2.67024
- Cadw reference
- 24044
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
A GWR signal dating probably from 1908 when the Wye Valley Railway was taken over by the Great Western Railway. It is marked on the O.S. 25" map, 1921 edition.
Exterior
The signal is constructed in cast and wrought iron. A cylindrical cast iron post carries a wrought iron gantry with two signals, a 'distant' and a 'home', both with onion finials.
Reason for designation
Included as an extremely rare surviving in-situ railway semaphore signal, and for its group value with the other buildings at Tintern station.
Nearby in the register
- Water Tank at Tintern StationWater Supply and Drainageunder 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.