Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Seiont
Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Morfa Common, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, designated on 3 May 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 3 May 2002
- Locality
- Morfa Common
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Caernarfon
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.13027, -4.26891
- Cadw reference
- 26614
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 1883 map "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 105 Carnarvon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 41. Anglesey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
A former road bridge spanning the River Seiont between the A487 and Seiont Mill Road.
History
A road bridge erected in 1835 by W.G. Owen, contractor (details on tablet).
Exterior
A single-span double-carriageway road bridge of coursed stone strengthened by steel tie rods. A round arch has stressed margin-drafted voussoirs. Abutments terminate with shallow splayed buttresses, which are carried up above a moulded cornice as terminal piers to the coped parapet. On the upstream (S) side the parapet has a panelled tablet recording the building of the bridge. On the R bank (E side), beyond the buttresses, is a second round-headed arch over a trackway, with stressed voussoirs and rubble stone parapet. Beyond this arch the SE side abuts a later C19 viaduct at right angles.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-detailed and well-preserved early C19 road bridge.
Nearby in the register
- Seiont Mill Road bridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Milestone on E side of A487Transportunder 1 mi
- Llwyn HelenDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bryn HelenDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.