Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pillar Box outside No.82
Pontcanna, Cardiff, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Canton, Cardiff, Pontcanna, designated on 24 May 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 24 May 2002
- Locality
- Canton
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Pontcanna
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.48405, -3.19683
- Cadw reference
- 26680
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)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 263 Cardiff (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 110. Cardiff & Mouth of the Severn. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
In the centre of the Community in an area of contemporary housing and about 100m north of the Church of St. Mary of the Angels.
History
This letter box is the V R standard cylindrical design which was current from 1887-1901. This particular one was probably sited in c1890 when the street was being developed. There is another one nearby in Lansdowne Road, Canton (qv).
Exterior
Cast iron cylindrical pillar box with V R monogram which is also marked in relief lettering Handyside and Co. Derby and London.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as an increasingly rare late Victorian letter box.
Nearby in the register
- Catholic Church of St Mary of the AngelsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box on the east side of the central gardensCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Church of St Catherine (Church of England in Wales)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 110 Cathedral RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.