Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Priory Bridge
Brecon, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Brecon, Powys, designated on 16 December 1976.
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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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 213 Brecon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (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.