Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Quaker's Viaduct (partly in Coedffranc community)
Dyffryn Clydach, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 29 March 2000
- Locality
- Skewen
- Town
- Neath
- Community
- Dyffryn Clydach
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.66207, -3.83631
- Cadw reference
- 82345
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
Spanning Drymau Road on the E side of Skewen and some 125m N of the main A4230.
History
Railway viaduct built for the South Wales Railway which was completed in 1850 between Chepstow and Swansea. The supervising engineer was I.K. Brunel, and the railway was built to a broad gauge. The bridge was built over a road and a tramroad taking coal to the Mines Royal Copper Works.
Exterior
Railway viaduct, 3 deep bays of snecked stone with tooled dressings to the elliptical arches. The central piers are pierced with round-headed openings. Projecting stone bands in each face define the base of the coped parapets that terminate in square piers above the abutments. The abutments are battered and retain an embankment on each side.
Reason for designation
Listed for its industrial archaeological interest as a Brunel-period railway bridge and one of the original structures on the South Wales Railway.
Nearby in the register
- Quaker's Viaduct (partly in Dyffryn Clydach community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Gorphwysfa ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of Saint John the BaptistReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Horeb ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.