Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ynys Bridge
Pentyrch, Cardiff, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Taff Vale, Pentyrch, Cardiff, designated on 31 January 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 31 January 2000
- Locality
- Taff Vale
- Community
- Pentyrch
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.53528, -3.26049
- Cadw reference
- 22823
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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)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (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)
- 1963 · Map No. 1 - Local Government Commission for Wales : [Definitive maps showing proposed… (National Library of Scotland)
Cadw's description
Location
Between Tongwynlais and Garth Wood, now by-passed by a new bridge close by to N.
History
Associated with the Pentyrch and Melingriffith works on the W bank of the Taff. Ironworks had been developed in the area in C16. By 1803 they were described as an area of extensive collieries abounding in iron ore. Melingriffith furnace rebuilt 1815, second furnace built 1830. Works described as comprising collieries, limestone quarries, brickworks, coke ovens, foundries, forges, 3 melling furnaces, 9 fineries...fitting shops, smiths, millwrights, pattern making shops. Failed in 1888 with introduction of steel. Site shown on first edition OS map immediately N of bridge; by late C20 completely cleared and redeveloped. On this map called Castle Coch Bridge. Style of masonry comparable to railway bridges of c 1860. The bridge provided important access to the main N/S thoroughfare on the E bank of the River Taff.
Exterior
Parapet of snecked rockfaced stone with giant coping stones of Radyr stone, a red conglomerate, roughly hewn; further band of Radyr stone at base of parapet. 2 narrow cutwater piers with moulded bands protruding beyond width of bridge either side, 3 wide elliptical arches with rough voussoirs, with pointed ends where not truncated against parapet and with a tooled edge.
Reason for designation
Included as an unaltered mid C19 bridge with close connections to the historic Pentyrch/Melingriffith ironworking site.
Nearby in the register
- Ynys Bridge (partly in Pentyrch community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Castell CochDefenceunder 1 mi
- Castell CochCastleunder 1 mi
- Nos 1-5 Wyndham Street (consec)Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.