Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
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Cilycwm, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II* listed building in Cilycwm, Carmarthenshire, designated on 29 November 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 29 November 1995
- Locality
- Cilycwm
- Community
- Cilycwm
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.03035, -3.81160
- Cadw reference
- 16986
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 1860 map "41. Caermathen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1860 · 41. Caermathen. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 212 Llandovery (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 212 Llandovery (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated some 1.5 km S of Cilycwm on road to Llandovery.
History
1822 road bridge over the Towy, built to similar technology as Dolauhirion Bridge (also in this community) of 1773, that is the revolutionary use of cylindrical piercing of the spandrels to lighten weight and provide a counterbalancing structural strength against the outward forces of the arch.
Exterior
Rubble stone road bridge, of single large elliptical arch with cut-stone voussoirs and keystones. Spandrels pierced by large weight-reducing circles, like Dolauhirion. Projecting shelf carrying parapet, following hump of bridge. Rubble stone parapets with flat tooled stone coping, the centre S capstone dated 1822. The abutments at SE and NW are splayed out on arches to ease approach lines.
Reason for designation
A handsome single-span stone bridge on the model of Dolauhirion
Nearby in the register
- ErrydDomesticunder 1 mi
- Abergwenlais MillIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Abergwenlais outbuildingsAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Abergwenlais HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.