Pillar Box at Barnes Cross at St 693 118
PILLAR BOX AT BARNES CROSS AT ST 693 118, CORNFORD HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1237251
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Pillar Box at Barnes Cross at St 693 118
- Statutory Address:
- PILLAR BOX AT BARNES CROSS AT ST 693 118, CORNFORD HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1237251
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Pillar Box at Barnes Cross at St 693 118
- Statutory Address 1:
- PILLAR BOX AT BARNES CROSS AT ST 693 118, CORNFORD HILL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PILLAR BOX AT BARNES CROSS AT ST 693 118, CORNFORD HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Holwell
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 69308 11775
Details
ST 61 SE BISHOPS CAUNDLE CORNFORD HILL (West Side) 2/140 Pillar Box at Barnes Cross at ST 693 118
II* (star)
Pillar box. 1853. Manufactured by John Butt and Co. at Sweetbriars Street Foundry, Gloucester for the Gloucester and Western District of the Post Office. Cast iron. Non-standard type of pillar box of polygonal plan having moulded plinth; collecting door with inset for collection-times display below crown flanked by initials "V R"; vertical slit for letters; moulded cornice and peaked top. This pillar box is believed to be the oldest in public service (two others of different design by the same manufacturer survive; one at the National Postal Museum, London the other a private posting box at Stonehouse Hospital, Plymouth). It is only slightly later than the original Channel Islands design.
Listing NGR: ST6930811775
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104992
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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