Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Melin-y-Coed Bridge and adjoining revetment walls to E and W.
Bro Garmon, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Melin-y-Coed, Bro Garmon, Conwy, designated on 23 June 1967.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 23 June 1967
- Locality
- Melin-y-Coed
- Community
- Bro Garmon
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.12832, -3.77320
- Cadw reference
- 122
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Spanning the Nant-y-Golon in the centre of the Melin-y-Coed hamlet; carrying the unclassified road running SE from Llanrwst towards Nebo.
History
Early C19 road bridge with adjoining coped walls, probably contemporary with a further bridge to the E, dated 1822; significantly, the neighbouring Bethel chapel, N of the bridge, was also founded in that year.
Exterior
Single-span road bridge with attendant revetment walls to E and W. Rubble construction with slate-slab coping to parapet walls. The bridge has an irregular rubble platform visible on the upstream N side. Segmental arch with rough-dressed, recessed voussoirs beneath archring. Humped carriageway, the whole some 10m across; splayed approaches to the N end joining onto modern rubble walls on both upstream and downstream sides. On the S side, the downstream parapet wall curves around to continue westwards for a further 15m as a revetment wall between the road and the river. On the Upstream side, the wall similarly curves around to continue eastwards as a long revettment wall for approximately 60m at a height of 80cms; there is a squinch formed in the angle between the wall and the bridge's parapet. The wall terminates at its eastern end in an upward slope where it adjoins a second, contemporary bridge.
Reason for designation
Included for its special historic interest as an early C19 vernacular bridge and for group value with the other attached bridge.
Nearby in the register
- Bethel ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Road Bridge 60m E of Melin-y-Coed BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Coach House at Cyffdy HallAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Barn to W of Cyffdy HallAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.