Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Footbridge at Chepstow Station
Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 12 November 2002
- Locality
- Chepstow
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Chepstow
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.63972, -2.67113
- Cadw reference
- 27112
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
Spanning the double track just S of the main station building.
History
Cast by the firm of Edward Finch and Co of Chepstow 1892.
Exterior
Railway footbridge. Made of bolted cast iron with decoratively pierced boarding to the gables and canopy, the latter now corrugated. Stairs each side in 3 bays, main bridge of 4 bays and the two linked by angled upper staircase bays. Bolted metal panels to bridge parapet incorporating foundry plate, boarded to stairs, bolted metal trusses to the canopy.
Reason for designation
Listed as a surviving iron footbridge closely associated with the Brunel station and for group value with it and other listed railway buildings.
Nearby in the register
- Chepstow Railway StationTransportunder 1 mi
- Railway Bridge by Chepstow StationTransportunder 1 mi
- Former steam flour mill and malting at Fairfield-Mabey WorksIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Chepstow Town Wall and GateTown Defencesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.