Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Ty-gwyn
Pentir, Gwynedd, Wales
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
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
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
- The Old Post OfficeDomesticunder 1 mi
- 8 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 1 Elizabeth TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Elizabeth TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.