Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Subway Under Railway
Neath, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Neath, Neath Port Talbot, designated on 5 January 1989.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 5 January 1989
- Community
- Neath
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.66278, -3.80712
- Cadw reference
- 11802
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 247 Swansea (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
At the end of the road below Maes-yr-Haf Chapel and linking it with Commercial Street.
History
Pedestrian subway under Chepstow to Swansea railway, engineered by Brunel and opened 18 June 1850.
Exterior
Splayed entrance to Commercial Street. Ramped retaining walls, squared coursed stonework, stone caps. Segmental arch to subway, stone voussoirs, stressed keystone. Vermiculated band of stone blocks, parapet over, stressed quoins, stone caps. Whitewashed vaulted passageway. Similar entrance to Maes-yr-Haf Road with taller parapet, later tile capping. No retaining walls.
Reason for designation
Group value with Capel Soar.
Nearby in the register
- Soar Maes-yr-haf Congregational Chapel and forecourt railingsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- E.Griffiths, Family GrocerCommercialunder 1 mi
- National Westminster BankCommercialunder 1 mi
- Midland BankCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.