Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
St. Asaph
St. Asaph, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 16 November 1962
- Community
- St. Asaph
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.25639, -3.44745
- Cadw reference
- 1445
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Spanning the River Elwy.
History
Built 1770 by Joseph Turner of Chester;
Exterior
Modern footbridge added to S (up stream) side. 5-arches of unequal widths, gently ramped coursed rubble bridge with golden sandstone dressings including stringcourses and arch- rings with hoodmoulds; parapet with stone coping. Plain pilasters; low pointed cutwaters to upstream side; decorative iron brace plates to central arch and that to the W of it.
Low rubble wall with coping on downstream side continues from the parapet at E end up to the War Memorial and at W end curves around corner and borders the end of The Roe up to the entry to the Penybont Clinic.
Scheduled Ancient Monument: FL026
Nearby in the register
- St Asaph BridgeBridgeunder 1 mi
- Railings & Boundary Walls to St. Kentigern & St. Asaph Parish ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Mary Short Memorial Drinking FountainCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Gatepiers & Gate at the Old DeaneryDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.