Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Rhydsaeson
Dyffryn Arth, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pontrhydsaeson, Dyffryn Arth, Ceredigion, designated on 23 May 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 23 May 1996
- Locality
- Pontrhydsaeson
- Community
- Dyffryn Arth
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.24671, -4.13585
- Cadw reference
- 17504
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 1830 map "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 178 Llanilar (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 78. Lampeter. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in Pontrhydsaeson, on B 4337, just S of Pontrhydsaeson Chapel.
Exterior
History: Mid C19 road bridge over a tributary of the river Arth, one of three distinctive masonry bridges on B 4337 near Pontrhydsaeson, probably all designed by Thomas Penson or his son R. K. Penson.
Description: Squared rubble stone single-arched bridge with small round arch. Raised rectangular voussoirs to arch and raised keystone. Flat raised band under flat parapet with squared stone coping. The ends are curved out slightly to raised piers with band carried across.
Included as one of a distinctive group of masonry bridges of unusual quality in this region, including Pont Aberarth 1849, Pont Dyffryn 1847, Pont Glanbran, and Pont Pennant 1850.
Nearby in the register
- Pont DyffrynTransportunder 1 mi
- Dyffryn ArthDomesticunder 1 mi
- Milestone on B4337Transportunder 1 mi
- BronwenauDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.