Pont Ty-gwyn

Pentir, Gwynedd, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Glasinfryn, Bangor, Pentir, Gwynedd, designated on 22 September 1997.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Pont Ty-gwyn, Pentir, Gwynedd, with a pin at the register's coordinates — Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation: Listed building, Grade II
Broad class: Transport
Date of designation: 22 September 1997
Locality: Glasinfryn
Town: Bangor
Community: Pentir
Unitary authority: Gwynedd
Country: Wales
Coordinates: 53.19676, -4.11645
Cadw reference: 18921

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1896 map "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1899 · 106 Bangor (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1899 · 106 Bangor (Outline) (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)

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Cadw's description

Location

The bridge carries the High Street over the Afon Cegin at the S end of the village.

History

Probably constructed in the C18 or early C19, to carry the Bangor to Tregarth road via the Cegin valley.

Exterior

Built of local stone rubble. A single arched span, founded on rock on each side, where the river runs through rapids below a stone sluice, perhaps for a former mill. The arch has slightly inset voussoirs with a regulating course above. The spandrels and bowed flush parapets are coped with a sharply keeled flush coping both sides.

Reason for designation

Included as a very well preserved bridge in a spectacular location.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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