Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Sontley Bridge
Offa, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Offa, Wrexham, designated on 31 January 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 31 January 1994
- Locality
- Offa
- Community
- Offa
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.02963, -2.99165
- Cadw reference
- 1814
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Partly in Community of Marchwiel. Carries the Sontley Road over the River Clywedog.
History
Bridge, dated 1845, by Thomas Penson, engineer.
Exterior
Cast iron with ashlar abutments. Tooled and rusticated ashlar abutments and retaining walls on shallow curve to each side. Spanned by 4 longitudinal cast iron shallow curved braced ribs, carrying flat road bed. Cast iron plates with raised panels recording ' Thos Penson County Surveyor', R & W Jones Ruabon Foundry 1845'. Cast iron railings in 2 tiers, with segmentally arched decoration below iron hand rail.
Reason for designation
A fine example of the use of local cast iron for bridge building, exploiting both its structural properties and decorative potential.
Nearby in the register
- Sontley BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- New Sontley FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Combined Pigsties and Hen House at New Sontley FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Former Stables at New Sontley FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.