Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Priory Bridge
Brecon, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 16 December 1976
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.95040, -3.39095
- Cadw reference
- 7012
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Spanning the River Honddu at foot of Priory Hill.
History
Probably mid C19; once a bridge of 2 spans. Although shown in similar form in a watercolour of the Struet by J M Ince, dated 1850 in National Library of Wales, possibly a rebuilding after the great flood of the Honddu in 1853.
Exterior
Bridge of stone with single wide segmental arch and stone parapet with flat stone coping.
Reason for designation
Listed for Group Value with buildings in Priory Hill, The Struet, and the Cathedral precinct.
Nearby in the register
- No.10 Priory Hill, including Forecourt Walls and RailingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bull's Head HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- 87 The StruetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 11 Priory HillDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.