Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bridge at Plas-y-bryn
Bontnewydd, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 29 July 1997
- Locality
- Bontnewydd
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Bontnewydd
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.11312, -4.26305
- Cadw reference
- 18617
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 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
The bridge carries the road to Plas-y-Bryn over the Afon Gwyrfai some 400m E of the A487, SE of the centre of Bontnewydd.
History
Later C19 road bridge over Afon Gwyrfai carrying minor road to Plas-y-Bryn. Very similar to railway bridge W of Bontnewydd.
Exterior
Rubble stone with red brick arches. Two broad segmental arches, with 4 courses of brick to arch-rings, raised high on centre pier and side abutments. Rubble stone flat parapets.
Reason for designation
A dramatic masonry bridge, the scale reminiscent of railway structures.
Nearby in the register
- Newborough ArmsCommercialunder 1 mi
- ArosfaDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pentre UchafDomesticunder 1 mi
- CraigafonDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.