Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bridge over the Afon Braint
Penmynydd, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Penmynydd, Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Isle of Anglesey, designated on 30 January 1968.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 30 January 1968
- Locality
- Penmynydd
- Town
- Llanfairpwllgwyngyll
- Community
- Penmynydd
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.23597, -4.21267
- Cadw reference
- 5556
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 1896 map "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 41. Anglesey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Road bridge bearing the B4520 across the Afon Braint on the S approach to the village of Penmynydd; c2km SSW of the church of St Gredifael.
History
Late C18 bridge, built in 1773 and widened on the N side.
Exterior
Stone bridge with elliptical arch flanked by small rectangular opening each side. Widened upstream north. Arch has roughly dressed voussoirs, slightly inset below extrados course of narrow slabs below rubble masonry. Rough parapet, with stone inscribed with date 1773.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good, well preserved, late C18 roadbridge.
Nearby in the register
- Agricultural range at BraintAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- BraintDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pig rearing unit at BraintAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Tyn yr AlltAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.