Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Water lift pump on road to Penowern
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
- 52.60795, -4.05686
- Cadw reference
- 23909
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 on the corner of the road to Penowern farm, and Ffordd-y-felin.
History
Erected probably in the mid-late C19 when a piped public water supply was brought to the village.
Exterior
Made of cast iron. A vertical fluted pipe rising to a Doric cap, and a spout with scrolled bucket hook, having a leaf like form at its junction with the main pipe. round bar iron handle hooked at its end. On the rising pipe, a lion rampant on an oval plate, reading in raised lettering Norton Hamar, the lower half obscured by the collar of an angled stay bar, added later. The pump 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
- Water lift pump by Pont FathewWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Ty'n-y-winllanDomesticunder 1 mi
- Grave of Mary JonesReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.