Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Felinwerndew (partly in Newport Community)
Dinas Cross, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 14 April 1992
- Locality
- Werndew
- Community
- Dinas Cross
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.01127, -4.87792
- Cadw reference
- 14955
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
Situated on boundary of Dinas and Newport communities, below modern road embankment by Felin Werndew.
History
1829 road bridge over Nant Fforest, bypassed by modern road embankment.
Exterior
Rubble stone with semi-circular single arch, cut-stone voussoirs, plinth and flat rubble stone parapets with rounded coping. North parapet now abuts modern road embankment and is partly destroyed.
Over bridge is plaque ‘1829 D Evans’, possibly relating to David Evans, architect of Fishguard and Cardigan.
Reason for designation
A well-built example of a small road bridge of early C19.
Also included as item 50 in the Newport Community List.
Nearby in the register
- Pont Felin-Wern-DewTransportunder 1 mi
- GlanymorDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gedeon Independent ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The CrossDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.