Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Pennant
Dyffryn Arth, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 23 May 1996
- Locality
- Pennant
- Community
- Dyffryn Arth
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.24571, -4.17947
- Cadw reference
- 17500
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 1830 "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated just S of Capel Pennant, across river Arth.
Exterior
History: 1850 road bridge over the Arth, by R.K. Penson, with the same distinctive character as the bridges designed by his father Thomas Penson at Aberarth and Dyffryn Arth, 1849 and 1847.
Description: Coursed rubble stone bridge of single span. Broad low elliptical arch with rectangular voussoirs with raised band above. Rubble stone flat parapet with edge-on stone coping.
Included for its high quality design and for group value with Capel Pennant.
Reference: Carmarthen Journal 1/3/1850
Pembrokeshire Herald 11/1/1850
National Library of Wales Cardigan Quarter Sessions 1839-52
Nearby in the register
- Capel PennantReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Ty CapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Llain including Outbuildings attached to gable endsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former School by Church of St PadarnEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.