Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Y Mister
Risca, Caerphilly, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pontymister, Risca, Caerphilly, designated on 22 October 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 22 October 1999
- Locality
- Pontymister
- Community
- Risca
- Unitary authority
- Caerphilly
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.59984, -3.09032
- Cadw reference
- 22508
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)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1906 · 249 Newport (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Crossing the Ebbw River to S of Pontymister village close to the A467 by-pass, formerly providing main access between Ochrwyth and Pontymister.
History
Probably an early post-medieval bridge remodelled in early C19. Led to hamlet of Ochrwyth and the mountainside settlements on the W side of the Ebbw Valley; old photo has it as Och-y-Wieth Bridge. New bridge has by-passed this old road.
Exterior
River bridge of two unequal arches. Of rubble with dressed stone to the river arches and flat or saddle back coping stones to the parapet. The 2 arches are separated by a cutwater; both are elliptical, that on uphillside is lower with a stringcourse above; this reappears at a different level for a short distance over the spandrel of the wider downhill arch.
Reason for designation
Listed as a pre-industrial bridge which has retained much of its character.
Nearby in the register
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- Twyn Pant-Teg Round BarrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Commercial Street War MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Bethany English Baptist Church and attached Sunday SchoolReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.