Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
New Bridge
Merthyr Mawr, Bridgend, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 26 July 1963
- Locality
- Merthyr Mawr
- Community
- Merthyr Mawr
- Unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.48973, -3.59790
- Cadw reference
- 11236
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
Crossing the Ogmore river approximately 1km NE of Merthyr Mawr church.
History
Built in 1827 (date on bridge) by Morgan Thomas of Laleston, for Sir John Nicholl of Merthyr Mawr Estate. Nicholl had purchased the Merthyr Mawr Estate in 1804 and built a new mansion for himself, for which he appropriated the original road to Merthyr Mawr village as his private drive. A new road was therefore adopted, requiring a new bridge across the River Ogmore. The present bridge replaced an earlier bridge with a wooden deck on stone piers which had been erected early C19.
Exterior
Single-carriageway road bridge of coursed, hammer-dressed stone, ramped to centre. Abutments are wider than the deck and have rounded angles. Three segmental arches have projecting keystones. V-shaped cutwaters are stepped up to a projecting band at the base of a low parapet. Parapet has flat coping (part renewed in reconstituted stone) and terminates with square piers on L bank (with later stone walls attached). Later stone walls are also attached on R bank. On the upstream side is a tablet set into the parapet and inscribed: "This Bridge was built and finished at the expence [sic] of the Right Honourable Sir John Nicholl under the inspection of William [Whirlington?] Country Surveyor by Morgan Thomas of Laleston AD 1827".
Reason for designation
Listed Grade II*, New Bridge is a fine example of an early C19 road bridge, its design similar to the Glan-Rhyd tramroad viaduct near Tondu.
Nearby in the register
- Walls to Kitchen Garden at Merthyr Mawr HouseGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Greenhouse attached to Kitchen Garden at Merthyr Mawr HouseGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Stable block at Merthyr Mawr HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Vehicle store and workshops at Merthyr Mawr HouseTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.