Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Railway Bridge over the Northern Driveway to Y Glyn
Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 2 August 1988
- Community
- Bangor
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.22023, -4.15714
- Cadw reference
- 4060
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 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Carries the Chester to Holyhead railway over the base of the northern wooded driveway.
History
Built between 1846 and 1861 when the estate was owned by the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company.
Exterior
Coursed rubble with freestone dressings. Small Gothic bridge with crenellated and corbelled parapet over chamfered pointed arch with plain coat of arms. Flanked by polygonal turrets with ramped bases, freestone caps and timber finials; brick vaulted underside. Modern boarding above parapet but probably contemporary crenellated boarding to either end where the walls of the viaduct gently sweep forward and are ramped down to abutt the ends of the screen walls at the entrance. This is repeated to the other side where the walls terminate in tapered polygonal piers.
Reason for designation
Group value with the Gate piers, gates and attached walls at Y Glyn.
Nearby in the register
- Gate Piers, Gates & attached Walls at the end of the Northern Driveway to Y GlynDomesticunder 1 mi
- BodlondebDomesticunder 1 mi
- BodlondebDomesticunder 1 mi
- BodlondebDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.