Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Bethania
Beddgelert, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bethania, Caernarfon, Beddgelert, Gwynedd, designated on 29 May 1968.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 29 May 1968
- Locality
- Bethania
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Beddgelert
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.03542, -4.04809
- Cadw reference
- 3746
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 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 119 Snowdon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Spanning the Afon Glaslyn approximately 2.5km NE of Beddgelert village and carrying the old turnpike road; immediately SE of the modern road bridge.
History
Built c1805 for the new line of the Porthdinllaen-Capel Curig turnpike road.
Exterior
Large triple-span road bridge, approximately 20m long. Of rubble construction with wide segmental central arch and smaller segmental flanking arches; rough-dressed voussoirs recessed below archrings of narrow stones. On the upstream side are 2 low triangular cutwaters. The carriageway is humped to the centre and has slab-coped parapets, splayed at the approaches and terminating, at the southern end, in flat, shallow buttresses. At both ends the parapets adjoin low modern rubble walls.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a good early C19 3-span road bridge.
Nearby in the register
- Bethania ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Field Cowhouse NE of Llyndy IsafAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Stable and Cartshed at Hafod y LlanAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Haybarn at Hafod y LlanAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.