Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Access Bridge to Bryn Eisteddfod
Llansanffraid Glan Conwy, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 16 February 1978
- Locality
- Bryn Eisteddfod
- Community
- Llansanffraid Glan Conwy
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.27665, -3.78972
- Cadw reference
- 3632
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 B 5381 0.5 km N of Bryn Eisteddfod, some 3km N of Llansanffraid Glan Conwy; carrying the N drive to Bryn Eisteddfod over the road
Exterior
Elegant single-span bridge built in 1841 for the Venerable Hugh Chambres Jones, Archdeacon of Essex. Of snecked, dressed stone with wide depressed arch; brick soffit and brick-on-edge voussoirs in 4 oversailing courses, giving a strong decorative effect. Plain string course at springing and splayed approaches; parapet rises gently to centre and has ashlar coping.
Reason for designation
A fine mid C19 estate bridge.
Nearby in the register
- Rubble cart shed at Bryn EisteddfodAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Kitchen Garden Walls (including glasshouses) at Bryn EisteddfodDomesticunder 1 mi
- L-shaped stable range at Bryn EisteddfodDomesticunder 1 mi
- Brick Carthouse at Bryn EisteddfodDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.