Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-box on east side of road close to Old Mackworth Arms
Llangybi, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 24 August 1990
- Locality
- Llanhennock
- Town
- Newport
- Community
- Llangybi
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.62977, -2.93617
- Cadw reference
- 2841
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
At north end of the forecourt to Old Mackworth Arms leading to the Churchyard of the Church of St. John the Baptist.
History
To the standard design of Giles Gilbert Scott, architect of London. Design introduced by GPO in 1936; this example dates from the reign of King George VI and probably dates from after WWII. Foundry plate inscribed ''MacFarlane & Co Ltd, Saracen Foundry, Glasgow''.
Exterior
K6 type square, red kiosk of cast-iron construction. Domed roof with four lunettes containing embossed crowns over red lettered opals and ventilation slits. Raised surrounds to sides and door with marginal bars to horizontal glazing. Blank rear, moulded plinth.
Reason for designation
Included as a K6 telephone box in a heritage location, and as part of an attractive grouping adjoining the Churchyard of the listed Parish Church of St. John the Baptist.
Nearby in the register
- Cross in Churchyard of Church of St. John the BaptistReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St. John the BaptistReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- OaklandsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Llansor Fawr (Great Llansor)Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.