Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Overton Bridge
Overton, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Overton Bridge, Overton, Wrexham, designated on 15 March 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 15 March 1994
- Locality
- Overton Bridge
- Community
- Overton
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.97778, -2.96291
- Cadw reference
- 14485
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 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)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Spans the River Dee at the boundary of Overton and Erbistock Communities, approximately 3km NW of the Overton.
History
Built in 1814 by Thomas Penson the younger, completing the work of Thomas Penson, who was dismissed after the collapse of his first design for a single-arched bridge on this site, itself replacing an earlier structure.
Exterior
Red sandstone ashlar bridge with 2 high segmental arches divided be knelled cutwaters at each side. Rusticated voussoirs to arches, with moulded string course above defining the base of the stepped parapet. Buttressed retaining wall supports the road-bed across the field to the east: coursed and squared rubble with ashlar parapet.
Reason for designation
An elegantly designed example of bridge construction.
Nearby in the register
- Old Rose CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Min-Yr-AfonDomesticunder 1 mi
- Rose Lodge (also known as the Old Post Office)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Gwaylod HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.