Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont-y-Delyn
Hope, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 2 July 1962
- Locality
- Hope
- Community
- Hope
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.11899, -3.04534
- Cadw reference
- 33
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 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Spanning the Afon Alun immediately S of the road and carrying the old Fagl Lane; approximately 1km W of the village centre.
History
A bridge at this point was referred to by Edward Lhwyd in 1699 as the 'Pont-y-Dorlyn'. The present bridge is probably a late C18 replacement.
Exterior
Single-span road bridge approximately 20m long; of sandstone ashlar construction. Depressed arch with voussoirs conjoined with horizontal courses plain stringcourses below parapets with long, curved capping stones. Flat carriageway with four pairs of curved kerbstones; curved approaches with square terminating piers. The upstream approach to the W continues as a rubble revetment with two further buttresses. The bridge is currently unused.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special historic interest as a late C18 road bridge.
Nearby in the register
- Rhanberfydd Farmhouse and CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Sarn HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Steps, Gates and Gatepiers to W of St Cyngar's ChurchGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Railed Tomb Monument 30m NW of St Cyngar's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.