Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Gynon and Boundary Stone
Eglwyswrw, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 10 December 1997
- Locality
- Pontgynon
- Town
- Crymych
- Community
- Eglwyswrw
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.99959, -4.73083
- Cadw reference
- 19169
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated some 600m N of Crosswell on the B 4329.
History
C18 to C19 road bridge carrying the Haverfordwest to Cardigan road over the River Nyfer, incorporating boundary stone between old parishes of Eglwyswrw and Meline. George Owen mentions a bridge here in the early C17, and the Quarter Sessions report repairs during the C18.
Exterior
Rubble stone single arch humped bridge over the river with long serpentine causeway approach from N. Main arch has cut Cilgerran stone voussoirs with arch ring. Rubble parapets with edge-on stone coping. E parapet incorporates C19 boundary stone marked `Eglwyswrw Boundary Meline Boundary' (similar to those at Pont Brynberian, Pontyglasier, Pontrhiwfelen, N of Cross Inn, and E of Trewilym). Abutment runs N for some 71m across flood meadow turning NW then NE and is pierced by two low flood-water arches with Cilgerran stone voussoirs and keystones. S abutment runs for some 12 metres.
Reason for designation
An attractive stone bridge and causeway, the arches probably remade in early C19 but causeway perhaps much older.
Nearby in the register
- Crosswell HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cwm-Pen-y-Benglog CampPromontory Fort - inlandunder 1 mi
- Castell MawrHillfortunder 1 mi
- Range of outbuildings at RhostwarchAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.