Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Sancler (partly listed in St Clears community)
Llanddowror, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in St Clears, Carmarthen, Llanddowror, Carmarthenshire, designated on 9 March 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 9 March 2001
- Locality
- St Clears
- Town
- Carmarthen
- Community
- Llanddowror
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.80946, -4.49590
- Cadw reference
- 24959
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)
- 1860 · 41. Caermathen. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 229 Carmarthen (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
At the end of Bridge Street, across the River Taf, on the community boundary with St Clears.
History
Road bridge over the Afon Taf, built on the site of an earlier road bridge in 1827-8, by William Morgan for £500. C20 repairs to parapet wall and ties inserted for structural reinforcement, the ties not visible in a photograph of c.1900.
Exterior
Road bridge, single arch span with each spandrel pierced by a circular opening. Both main arch and circles have fine cut stone voussoirs. Projecting sill at carriageway level to both sides below renewed rubble stone parapet with limestone coping. Square piers to bridge head terminals with ridged grey limestone capstones. Rubble stone abutments each side, those on N continued as stone walls each side of roadway, roadway and embankment removed on S. Bridge is reinforced with late C20 metal ties.
Reason for designation
Included as a broad-span single arch bridge with distinctive spandrel holes in the manner of the pioneering design by William Edwards at Pontypridd in the C18.
Nearby in the register
- Saint Clears Bridge/ Pont Sancler (partly in Llanddowror communityTransportunder 1 mi
- St Clears Mound and Bailey CastleMotte and Baileyunder 1 mi
- Water PumpWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Green Park House, with wall and railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.