Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Buttington Bridge
Trewern, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Buttington, Trewern, Powys, designated on 11 March 1981.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 11 March 1981
- Locality
- Buttington
- Community
- Trewern
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.67265, -3.11566
- Cadw reference
- 15647
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 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 151 Welshpool (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1916 · Sheet 60. Shrewsbury. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
History
The main road bridge across the River Severn, partly in the Community Area of Welshpool.
Exterior
Single-span bridge built in 1872, by W.N.Swettenham, County Surveyor for Montgomeryshire. Five elliptical iron arches reinforced with later steel framing, springing from rusticated stone abutments, and having a cast iron parapet consisting of zig-zag line with bold trefoil decoration, cast in two halves in sections approximately 1.6m long. The abutments have very shallow elliptical land arches of yellow stone with red sandstone quoin decoration and keystones, and rise to small refuges at road level. The bridge is approached by causeways of rusticated stone on both sides.
Reason for designation
An interesting late use of cast iron in prefabricated sections to provide a worthy major river bridge.
Nearby in the register
- The MalthouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of All SaintsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Buttington VicarageDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Green Dragon InnCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.