Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Water lift pump at Pen Parc
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
- 52.60509, -4.05300
- Cadw reference
- 23906
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
Pen Parc is at the S end of Bryn Crug village. The pump stands in a purposely formed stone-built recess in the retaining bank of the road to Rhyd-yr-onen.
History
Erected probably in the mid-late C19 when a piped public water supply was brought to the village.
Exterior
Cast iron lift pump, with a 4-in diameter pipe ascending to a widened and fluted top chamber, to which is attached a long curved handle with an acorn terminal. The discharge pipe, at the head of the ascending pipe, has a scroll-shaped bucket hook. On the side of the pipe, the manufacturer's badge surmounted by a lion. The pump is steadied by two stay bars and a collar. Recently painted.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved C19 pump, one of a group of such pumps in the community, an interesting example of a public amenity, unusual in a rural area.
Nearby in the register
- BronwylfaDomesticunder 1 mi
- Water lift pump on road to PenowernWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Grave of Mary JonesReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Mile MarkerTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.