Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Railway viaduct over Afon Ebwy (partly in Graig community)
Rogerstone, Newport, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 23 July 2003
- Locality
- Bassaleg
- Town
- Newport
- Community
- Rogerstone
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.57907, -3.04303
- Cadw reference
- 81343
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
Crossing the Afon Ebwy from E to W on the NE side of Bassaleg.
History
Railway viaduct built for Rumney Railway Co. in 1826 probably to design of George Overton, the company's surveyor, and the largest surviving early railway viaduct in South Wales, and therefore one of the largest built anywhere before the era of the locomotive. Widened in 1863 for the Brecon & Merthyr Railway.
Exterior
Railway viaduct, squared rubble stone with 4 round arches,, the arches with cut stone voussoirs. Three piers with two-step triangular cutwaters, the top step chamfered back to a flat pier also stepped in. Thin string course between piers under high parapet, the coping and top level possibly cut down. Outer big splayed abutments have similar raised piers. Much iron strapping.
Reason for designation
Graded II* as one of the most important early railway bridges in Wales.
Nearby in the register
- Railway viaduct over Afon Ebwy (partly in Rogerstone community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Church of Saint BasilReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Lychgate, churchyard walls and railings to Church of Saint BasilNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Tower at SW corner of churchyard, attached to Tredegar ArmsNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.