Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Wnin
Llanelltyd, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 20 July 1995
- Locality
- Llanelltyd
- Community
- Llanelltyd
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.75743, -3.90641
- Cadw reference
- 16151
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 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
Spanning the Afon Wnin on a bend in the centre of Llanelltyd village and formerly the main road bridge; immediately N of the present, modern road bridge.
Exterior
Mid-late C18 single-span road bridge of rough-dressed stone; depressed arch with chamfered arch-ring and dressed voussoirs. Plain, continuous stringcourse continued over flat buttresses on both sides. The S parapet has three such buttresses, two flanking the arch and a further one to the W where the parapet bows slightly southwards where the bridge terminates. The N parapet has 2 buttresses flanking the bridge arch and terminating the parapet walls which curve northwards, following the course of the river. The NE parapet wall is continued for a further 10m along the riverbank in a later stretch of stone-coped rubble walling. There is a benchmark on the inner face of the S parapet.
Reason for designation
An unusually angled C18 bridge in a central village location.
Group value with other listed items in Llanelltyd village.
Nearby in the register
- The Old Post OfficeCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Tyn-y-CelynDomesticunder 1 mi
- AwelonDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Toll HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.