the classic british phone box was based on a tomb?
"Visible from the graveyard and sharing its name with the same martyr, St Pancras, is the sister station to King’s Cross, a Victorian gothic masterpiece built by Sir George Gilbert Scott. Just under half a century after this station opened, the architect’s son, Giles Gilbert Scott had entered a competition to design a telephone box. He trod around the graveyard of St Pancras Old Church, in the shadow of his father’s masterpiece, and found inspiration: the central domed structure of Soane’s tomb."
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-tomb-and-the-telephone-box-soane-s-mausoleum-1816/
thinking about those safety coffins with cords leading to bells outside and phones (later) people would put in graves now
