Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Ogwen (partly in Llandygai community)
Llanllechid, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 24 September 1985
- Locality
- Braichmelyn
- Community
- Llanllechid
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.16802, -4.05610
- Cadw reference
- 4140
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
Spanning the Afon Ogwen immediately to the south-west of the A 5 at the entrance to the Ogwen Bank Caravan Park; carries a track over the river skirting the eastern side of the Penrhyn Slate Quarry.
History
Almost certainly built c1790 to connect Lord Penryhn's now demolished villa at Ogwen Bank, designed by Benjamin Wyatt, with Penrhyn Quarry. The Afon Ogwen here forms the boundary with Llanllechid community.
Exterior
Roughly coursed rubblestone with slate slab coping and string course. Single wide segmental arch with voussoirs and arch-ring, coping slightly rising to centre; corner piers.
Reason for designation
Included as a substantial late C18 bridge of a characteristic type, important for its historical connection with the now-demolished Gothick villa at Ogwen Bank.
Nearby in the register
- Pont Ogwen (partly in Llanllechid community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Penrhyn Quarry: relict areas, quarry hospital and underground levelsQuarryunder 1 mi
- Plas PenisarnantDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pont y Twr (partly in Bethesda community)Transportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.