Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Glanbran ( Partly in Dyffryn Arth community)
Ciliau Aeron, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 23 May 1996
- Locality
- Glanbran
- Community
- Ciliau Aeron
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.23633, -4.13563
- Cadw reference
- 17534
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on B 4337 some 1.2 Km S of Pontrhydsaeson.
History
Mid C19 road bridge over the Afon Bran, one of three distinctive bridges on the approach to Pontrhydsaeson, by Thomas Penson or his son R.K. Penson, the others being Pont Dyffryn (1847), and Pont Rhydsaeson.
Exterior
Squared tooled sandstone single arched bridge with broad elliptical arch. Raised rectangular voussoirs, tooled with smooth borders, and big similar keystone each side. Rock-faced raised band above and parapet with heavy squared coping stones. The ends are curved out slightly to raised end piers with band carried across.
Reason for designation
One of a distinct group of road bridges of unusual quality, designed by Thomas or R.K. Penson.
Nearby in the register
- Pont Glanbran ( Partly in Ciliau Aeron Community)Transportunder 1 mi
- ParcauDomesticunder 1 mi
- Dyffryn ArthDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pont DyffrynTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.