Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Rhys Powell Bridge
Crucorney, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Cwmyoy, 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
- Cwmyoy
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Crucorney
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.89328, -3.00106
- Cadw reference
- 19263
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 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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)
- 1896 · 214 Talgarth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Carries the minor road to Cwmyoy about 100m north east of the Queen's Head Inn.
History
A bridge of C17 form although likely to have undergone considerable repair and rebuilding, for example the upstream face of the western arch.
Exterior
Red sandstone rubble with some dressed stones. Two arch bridge with cutwater on both faces. Segmental arches rising to a hump over the pier, parapet walls and coping stones.
Reason for designation
Included as the only surviving example of a C17 bridge in the Community.
Nearby in the register
- Small Barn east of Pont Rhys Powell FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Large Barn at Pont Rhys Powell FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Barn at Llwyn-celyn FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Pont Rhys Powell FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.