Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Faen (partly in Llanwnda community)
Bontnewydd, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanfaglan, Caernarfon, Bontnewydd, Gwynedd, designated on 29 July 1997.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 29 July 1997
- Locality
- Llanfaglan
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Bontnewydd
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.10994, -4.29392
- Cadw reference
- 18625
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 1883 map "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 105 Carnarvon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 41. Anglesey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Carrying the minor road from Llanfaglan to Saron across the Afon Gwyrfai approximately 1km SW of Llanfaglan.
History
Early C19 single-arched road bridge carrying road from Llanwrog to Caernarfon over Afon Gwyrfai.
Exterior
Rubble stone with grey limestone dressings. Broad elliptical single arch with deep cut-stone stepped voussoirs. Coursed squared stones in spandrels stopped at raking abutments. Corbelled rough slab string course under squared stone parapet with cemented coping and square end piers.
Reason for designation
A well-detailed elliptical-arched bridge.
Nearby in the register
- Pont Faen (partly in Bontnewydd Community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Glanrafon FawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Free HolderDomesticunder 1 mi
- Plas DinasDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.