Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
24044
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/09/2000
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Railway Signal Post at Tintern Station
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Wye Valley
Town
Chepstow
Locality
Tintern Parva
Easting
353780
Northing
200718
Street Side
Location
On a meadow at a loop of the river Wye to N of Tintern Abbey.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
A GWR signal dating probably from 1908 when the Wye Valley Railway was taken over by the Great Western Railway. It is marked on the O.S. 25" map, 1921 edition.
Exterior
The signal is constructed in cast and wrought iron. A cylindrical cast iron post carries a wrought iron gantry with two signals, a 'distant' and a 'home', both with onion finials.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as an extremely rare surviving in-situ railway semaphore signal, and for its group value with the other buildings at Tintern station.
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