Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Telephone Call-box by Capel Gwynfryn
Llanbedr, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 29 October 2003
- Locality
- Pentre Gwynfryn
- Community
- Llanbedr
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.82405, -4.08316
- Cadw reference
- 82014
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 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from the W side of the road which leads E off the A496 in the village of Llanbedr and runs through the hamlet of Pentre Gwynfryn; the chapel is at the NE end of the hamlet. The telephone box is directly S of the chapel.
History
K6 type telephone kiosk to standard design of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Design introduction by the GPO in 1936, this example dates from the region of King George VI.
Exterior
Red painted cast-iron telephone kiosk with shallow domed roof, and embossed George VI crowns in lunette each side. Below are red-lettered semi-transparent panels and ventilation slits. Sides have raised surrounds with horizontal glass panels with margin lights. Similar panels to door. Raised plinth. Blank rear.
Reason for designation
Forms a group with the adjacent mid C19 chapel at Pentre Gwynfryn.
Nearby in the register
- Capel GwynfrynReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Gwynfryn HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- House adjacent to Gwynfryn HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pont Glyn-artroTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.