Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Trelech
Trelech, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 10 July 2002
- Locality
- Penybont
- Town
- Carmarthen
- Community
- Trelech
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.91619, -4.46394
- Cadw reference
- 26756
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in the centre of Penybont village just E of Penybont Independent Chapel.
History
Road bridge over the Afon Dewi Fawr with datestone of 1776. Bridge could possibly have been rebuilt in earlier C19 with datestone reused.
Exterior
Road bridge, rubble stone single arch, recessed with cut stone voussoirs. Keystone on N arch. Rubble parapets with some edge-on slate copings, secured with longer slabs carried down into walling. some plain rounded cement copings. Parapets splay outwards at W, longer abutments on E, tooled limestone curved blocks at ends of parapets. S side has plaque 'This bridge was rebuilt at the expence of ye county by W. E-ns Gent and Mr Rees Overseers 1776'.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-built single-arched road bridge, with early datestone of 1776.
Nearby in the register
- Coach-house at Rhyd-y-garreg-dduAgriculture and Subsistence1 mi
- Rhyd-y-garreg-dduDomestic1 mi
- Crug y Deyrn Burial ChamberRound Barrow2 mi
- Capel BettwsChapel2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.