Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Swansea Canal aqueduct over the Lower Clydach River
Clydach, Swansea, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 15 December 2003
- Locality
- Clydach
- Town
- Swansea
- Community
- Clydach
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.69395, -3.89800
- Cadw reference
- 82323
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
Some 100m S of the High Street near the junction of the Lower Clydach River and the Afon Tawe.
History
Late C18 aqueduct carrying Swansea Canal over Lower Clydach river, one of six single arch aqueducts on the canal. The 16-mile Swansea Canal was opened in 1798 to Hen Neuadd, Abercraf, declined after the railway opened in 1852 and closed in 1931.
Exterior
Canal aqueduct, rubble stone with low segmental arch with cut stone voussoirs. Broad bridge carrying canal with footpaths, each footpath crossing a shallow overflow which spills out through long narrow slots under parapets. Parapet of rubble stone on NW side, over ovolo-moulded raised string course. Low parapet with tooled stone coping on SE, and added C20 railings.
Reason for designation
Included as a major historic structure of one of the most important canals in Wales.
Nearby in the register
- Iron Footbridge over the Swansea CanalTransportunder 1 mi
- Capel CalfariaReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Piers and railings at Calfaria Baptist ChapelNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Church of Saint MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.