Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Festival of Britain beacon
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, designated on 28 March 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 28 March 2002
- Town
- Tenby
- Community
- Tenby
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.66839, -4.70398
- Cadw reference
- 26328
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 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 245 Pembroke (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated at beach end of South Beach car park, reached via Battery Road.
History
C19 cast-iron gas lamp-standard with brazier on top said to have been erected on the Esplanade, and altered for the 1951 Festival of Britain. Moved later to the South Beach car park.
Exterior
Cast-iron tall column standard with fluted base and lower part of shaft, carrying bowl for beacon with torches around the rim. Moulded ring at foot, over base fluting, double ring above shaft fluting and double neck ring. Top is flared out to a vertical-sided bowl with 4 cast-iron antique torches attached to outside.
Reason for designation
Included as an unusual relic of the 1951 Festival of Britain.
Nearby in the register
- The South Beach Hotel and area railingsCommercialunder 1 mi
- Belgrave Hotel and area railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- 32 Victoria StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Railings and retaining walls to seafrontGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.