Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Crane at Victoria Dock
Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Maritime
- Date of designation
- 3 May 2002
- Locality
- Victoria Dock
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Caernarfon
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.14396, -4.27577
- Cadw reference
- 26612
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 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On the E side of the dock.
History
Victoria Dock was completed by 1874 and is shown in its present form on the 1890 Ordnance Survey. The Crane, by W Johnson & Co of Liverpool, is also shown on the 1890 Ordnance Survey and may be an integral feature of the original dock.
Exterior
A manually-operated cast iron crane, with a timber arm and wrought iron bucket. The structure rotates around a central column and is bolted to a flagstone surface.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved and rare-surviving C19 dock structure.
Nearby in the register
- Victoria Dock wallsMaritimeunder 1 mi
- Former warehouse at Victoria DockCommercialunder 1 mi
- Arfon OceaneeringCommercialunder 1 mi
- Drawbridge on S side of Victoria DockMaritimeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.