Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Spwdwr (Spudder's Bridge)
Trimsaran, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 3 March 1966
- Locality
- Spudder's Bridge
- Community
- Trimsaran
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.72966, -4.26907
- Cadw reference
- 11875
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
Approximately 2km NW of Trimsaran village centre, by-passed by and set back from the modern road.
History
Probably built in the second half of the C16. Money was left for the repair of the bridge in 1571 and 1587. The wing walls were added by Thomas Kymer in 1770.
Exterior
A single-carriageway rubble-stone bridge of 4 main spans, steeply ramped to the centre. The piers and abutments have V-shaped cutwaters rising to the parapet to form refuges. Each span has a pointed arch, of which the 2 central spans are wider and higher. The 2 southernmost arches span the river, the remaining 2 are built over floodplain. Further N are 2 additional low and narrow pointed arches built over the floodplain on the approach to the bridge. The plain parapet continues on the N side, where it forms a field boundary and terminates in a field gate.
Reason for designation
Listed grade II* as an especially fine and well-preserved sub-medieval road bridge.
Scheduled Ancient Monument Cm 006 (CAM).
Nearby in the register
- Spudder's BridgeBridgeunder 1 mi
- Milepost on B4308 at Bont CottagesNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Bridge at Moat FarmTransportunder 1 mi
- Former Kidwelly & Llanelly Canal aqueduct (also known as Glanstony Aqueduct)No class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.