Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pen-y-bont Bridge
Crucorney, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanvihangel Crucorney, Abergavenny, Crucorney, Monmouthshire, designated on 29 January 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 29 January 1998
- Locality
- Llanvihangel Crucorney
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Crucorney
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.88233, -2.98254
- Cadw reference
- 19249
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV.Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. a. England ab sich: Shire:15-17, 33 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
In Pen-y-bont over the Afon Honddu about 300m north of the Church of St Michael, Llanvihangel Crucorney.
History
Built in 1827 by the County of Monmouth. It replaced a two arched C17 bridge of the type which survives upstream at Pont Rhys-Powell. The downstream parapet carries a plaque inscribed 'This bridge was rebuilt at the expense of the County in the sixth year of the reign of George the Fourth 1827' The engineer's name has been destroyed.
Exterior
Single arch bridge with shallow segmental arch. Dressed voussoirs, drip and parapet, the rest is sandstone rubble. The spandrels are laid randomly, the parapet is thin coursed. Splayed abutments.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of an early C19 county bridge.
Nearby in the register
- Fingerpost at Pen-y-bont BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- MillbrookDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Skirrid Inn, with attached barnCommercialunder 1 mi
- Twr Mihangel (formerly known as Treturret)Defenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.