Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Glantanat Uchaf
Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Tanat Valley, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Powys, designated on 14 August 2003.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 14 August 2003
- Locality
- Tanat Valley
- Community
- Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.80978, -3.28161
- Cadw reference
- 81783
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 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 137 Oswestry (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1916 · Sheet 60. Shrewsbury. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Carrying the road from Llanrhaeady-ym-Mochnant to Rhos-y-Brithdir over the River Tanat.
History
Marked on the Tithe Map of 1842. Probably a turnpike bridge of the late C18, but not included in the known list of County bridges. Mediaeval grave slabs have been reused in the copings of the parapets.
Exterior
A single-arch bridge about 6 m wide in local uncoursed slate masonry with sandstone voussoirs and string course. The arch spans about 20 m and is of slightly rusticated voussoirs about 500 mm deep, and there are keystones each side. The intrados surface is similarly rusticated.
The parapets are about 1 m high in uncoursed similar slate masonry, and turn out slightly at all four ends. Flat copings including (downstream) most of a stone carved with a cross within a circle; also (upstream) the other remnant of this stone plus another with a more complete cross and circle. When the Commissioners examined these stones in 1911 they searched for accompanying inscriptions but found none.
Reason for designation
A fine single arch turnpike bridge, with remnants of mediaeval carvings in the parapet copings.
Nearby in the register
- Pont Glantanat Uchaf (Partly in Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant (S) Community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Pont Glantanat Uchaf (partly in the communities of Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant (S) and Llangedwyn)Transportunder 1 mi
- Glantanat UchafAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Bontglantanat Farmhouse and BarnAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.