Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Quaker's Viaduct (partly in Dyffryn Clydach community)
Coedffranc, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Skewen, Coedffranc, Neath Port Talbot, designated on 29 March 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 29 March 2000
- Locality
- Skewen
- Community
- Coedffranc
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.66208, -3.83666
- Cadw reference
- 23065
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)
- 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)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 247 Swansea (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Spanning Drymau Road on the E side of the village and N of the main A4230.
History
An integral feature of the South Wales Railway, completed in 1850 between Chepstow and Swansea. The supervising engineer was I.K. Brunel, and here the railway was built to a broad gauge. The bridge was built over a road and a tramroad taking coal to the Mines Royal Copper Works.
Exterior
A deep 3-bay viaduct of snecked stone with tooled dressings to the elliptical arches. The central piers are pierced with round-headed openings. Projecting stone bands in each face define the base of the coped parapets that terminate in square piers above the abutments. The abutments are battered and retain an embankment on each side.
Reason for designation
Listed for its industrial archaeological interest as a Brunel-period railway bridge and one of the original structures on the South Wales Railway.
Nearby in the register
- Quaker's Viaduct (partly in Coedffranc community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Gorphwysfa ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Horeb ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of Saint John the BaptistReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.