Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Footbridge
Llanberis, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 18 January 2000
- Locality
- Pen-gilfach
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Llanberis
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.12872, -4.13780
- Cadw reference
- 22789
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 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated over the former Llanberis-Caernarfon Railway in the grounds of Glyn Padarn close to the south-western shore of Llyn Padarn.
History
Railway footbridge. Erected to cross the Llanberis to Caernarfon branch of the London & North Western Railway which opened in 1869.
Exterior
Single-span arch over deep cutting in the former Caernarfon to Llanberis Railway. Rectangular stone piers to each end of iron footbridge with circles of increasing-decreasing size to spandrels of the segmental arch; handrail has delicate square panels with thin scissor bracing giving the whole structure an unusualy refined and sophisticated character. Stone steps at each approach, those on south side running staight onto bridge, those to north set at right-angles to it.
Reason for designation
Listed as a railway footbridge which is a fine example of decorative ironwork, and of group value with Glyn Padarn.
Nearby in the register
- Glyn PadarnDomesticunder 1 mi
- Entrance Lodge at Glyn PadarnDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ynys-wenDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bron CerisDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.