Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Sticill (also known as Pontsticill Bridge)
Vaynor, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 17 December 1998
- Locality
- Pontsticill
- Community
- Vaynor
- Unitary authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.79385, -3.36510
- Cadw reference
- 21159
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
NE of Pontsticill village and adjacent to the Water Treatment Works below Pontsticill Reservoir.
History
The bridge which gave name to the village. Datestone 1825 inscribed DI; one of a number of such bridges on the mountain road and pass between Pontsticill and Talybont probably resulting from road improvements associated with the development of the Brecknock and Abergavenny canal. This bridge carried the main road across the Taf Fechan river.
Exterior
Single span river bridge with a slightly asymmetrical segmental arch. Built of stone rubble with dressed stone voussoirs and keystone, low parapet with flat coping defined by a string course on the outer face, splayed approaches and abutments, tiered to SW. Some unsympathetic rebuilding of N parapet and repointing.
Reason for designation
Listed as an early C19 bridge, one of a group on this route.
Nearby in the register
- Pont Sticill (also known as Pontsticill Bridge)Transportunder 1 mi
- Compensation Basin at Pontsticill Water Treatment WorksWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Turbine House at Pontsticill Water Treatment WorksWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Filter House at Pontsticill Water Treatment WorksWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.