Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont y Gaseg
Bethesda, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 25 April 1997
- Locality
- Bethesda
- Town
- Bangor
- Community
- Bethesda
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.17509, -4.05698
- Cadw reference
- 18380
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 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated some 500m S of centre of Bethesda, S of R.C. church.
History
Early C19 road bridge carrying Thomas Telford's Holyhead road over the River Caseg. Marked on 1889 O.S. as 'Pont y Gaseg or Pont Aberogwen'.
Exterior
Rubble stone single arched road bridge. Broad elliptical arch with squared stone voussoirs, string course above, and two raking buttresses each side. String course broken forward over outer buttresses. Rubble stone W parapet with slate edge-on coping. Bridge has been widened on E side with flat concrete span, but not altering bridge structure except for loss of E parapet.
Reason for designation
Handsome single span road bridge, possibly designed by Thomas Telford as part of the Holyhead road.
Nearby in the register
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- Cae'rberllanDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.