Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Pantysgallog (partly in Llywel community)
Cray, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 25 September 1951
- Locality
- Pantysgallog
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Cray
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.95024, -3.59686
- Cadw reference
- 6796
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Road bridge carrying a minor road over the Usk some 2.3 km E of Trecastle.
History
Road bridge over the Usk, probably late C18, of one single broad arch of impressive span and narrowness at crown.
Exterior
Road bridge, rubble stone with cut-stone voussoirs to single broad and high arch over the river. Exceptionally narrow crown, the roadway humped. Narrow carriageway with rubble stone parapets each side, splayed outward each end. Flat stone coping.
Reason for designation
Included as a particularly impressive single span C18 road bridge.
Nearby in the register
- Pont Pantyscallog (partly in Cray community)Transportunder 1 mi
- TynycoedDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gilfach, Round Cairn 500m WSW ofRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- GlanwysgDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.