Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pair of Stone Bridges beside Iron Bridge and below Hermitage
Llandwrog, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 8 September 1998
- Locality
- Glynllifon
- Community
- Llandwrog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.07486, -4.29775
- Cadw reference
- 20500
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 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated immediately east of the 1840 dated iron footbridge and carrying a path up to the Hermitage.
History
Possibly part of the 2nd Lord Newborough's many improvements to the pleasure grounds in the 1820's given that one of these bridges carries a path up to the Hermitage which was built c1825. The rubble bridges in the valley tend to be earlier than the iron ones.
Glynllifon was the seat of the Wynn family and Sir Thomas John Wynn became the 1st Lord Newborough in 1776. The house was rebuilt after a fire 1836-48 by Edward Haycock, architect of Shrewsbury.
Exterior
Pair of rubble bridges. The lower bridge carries the footpath and has flat arch with coping to parapets. The upper bridge has round arch through which passes a waterfall, one of the many garden features.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with neighbouring listed items within these well-preserved C19 pleasure grounds.
Nearby in the register
- Iron Footbridge over Afon LlifonGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- HermitageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Rubble Footbridge below the HermitageGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Rubble Footbridge uphill from HermitageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.