Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Footbridge over lake at Machen House
Graig, Newport, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Lower Machen, Newport, Graig, designated on 4 October 1990.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 4 October 1990
- Locality
- Lower Machen
- Town
- Newport
- Community
- Graig
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.58582, -3.11745
- Cadw reference
- 3087
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)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1906 · 249 Newport (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Some 65m SW of the house in Lower Machen. Machen House is set in its own grounds beside the Parish Church.
History
Picturesque landscape feature to gardens laid out as setting for Machen House, built 1831 for the Rev C.A.S. Morgan, and part of a very unusual miniature landscape garden with Gothic features to outside walls, servants' accommodation and beebole. The bridge however is hardly Gothic and seems in form if not detail to be based on the Chinese willow-pattern bridge
The bridge spans the S end of a small ornamental lake, one of two in the garden.
Exterior
Footbridge, rock-faced rubble stone with squared stone dressings, of 3 arches, slightly humped with narrow footway. Arches are segmental-curved and shallow with cut stone voussoirs and separated by tiny triangular-section shafts on corbels extended up to the low parapets. Parapets are splayed out at ends, copings are of tooled stone and end at piers with small pyramidal caps. Pyramidal caps also on parapets over the dividing shafts.
Reason for designation
Included as an attractive stone bridge designed as a picturesque landscape feature in a remarkable small landscaped garden.
Nearby in the register
- Gatepiers, gate and garden walls to Machen HouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Garden walls to S, W and N of NantygarthNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Machen House including attached outbuildings and curved screen wallDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Old PostNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.