Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Sarn Bridge
Willington Worthenbury, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Tallarn Green, Wrexham, Willington Worthenbury, designated on 16 November 1962.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 16 November 1962
- Locality
- Tallarn Green
- Town
- Wrexham
- Community
- Willington Worthenbury
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.99707, -2.83570
- Cadw reference
- 1706
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 1637 map "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1861 · 73. Market Drayton. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 122 Nantwich (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
To north-west of Tallarn Green, spanning the Wych Brook, the border between Wales and England.
History
The Sarn is an early fording point and a date of 1627 is inscribed on the bridge. However a further date of 1819 records the work of the then Flintshire County Surveyor Jonathan Turner and the character of the bridge suggests that this work was probably a full rebuilding. The bridge has been widened on the upstream side, presumably in 1925, the third date inscribed here.
Exterior
Coursed stone bridge composed of two segmental arches with stone-slab parapets to the road set on stone band. On the downstream side a triangular sectioned cutwater. Inscriptions to cutwater include "John and David Smith, freemasons of this Bridge, AD 1627, restored 1925". Also records the work in 1819 of the Flintshire County Surveyor, Jonathan Turner.
Reason for designation
Listed as an elegant early C18 bridge with earlier origins.
Nearby in the register
- Tallarn Green Temperance RoomInstitutionalunder 1 mi
- Lychgate to Church of Saint Mary MagdaleneReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St Mary MagdeleneReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Kenyon CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.