Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Water lift pump by Pont Fathew
Bryn-Crug, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Water Supply and Drainage
- Date of designation
- 15 August 2000
- Locality
- Bryn Crug
- Community
- Bryn-Crug
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.60988, -4.05602
- Cadw reference
- 23905
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 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
The pump stands in a small landscaped area of recent origin, on the N bridge head, in the centre of the village.
History
Erected probably in the mid-late C19 when a piped public water supply was brought to the village.
Exterior
A lift pump of cast iron, consisting of a plain 6-in diameter pipe rising to a plain chamber at the top, provided with a rod handle curved into a loop at the end. The discharge pipe has a hook for buckets. No maker or registration plates. It has recently been painted.
Reason for designation
Included as a well preserved C19 water pump, one of a group of such pumps in the area, an interesting example of a public amenity, unusual in a rural area.
Nearby in the register
- Mile MarkerTransportunder 1 mi
- Ty'n-y-winllanDomesticunder 1 mi
- Grave of Mary JonesReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Water lift pump near Pentre-Uchaf, BryncrugWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.