Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ynys-y-bont Bridge
Crynant, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Treforgan, Neath, Crynant, Neath Port Talbot, designated on 1 March 2004.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 1 March 2004
- Locality
- Treforgan
- Town
- Neath
- Community
- Crynant
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.73778, -3.74956
- Cadw reference
- 82548
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 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · Sheet 231 - Merthyr Tydfil - Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. One-inch to the mile… (National Library of Scotland)
Cadw's description
Location
Road bridge crossing the Afon Dulais on the SE side of Treforgan.
History
Road bridge said to date from 1814 and to have been designed by William Whittington of Neath. The rock-faced stonework looks however of later C19 date, the arch is skewed with corresponding skewed banding of the soffit masonry.
Exterior
Road bridge, rock faced rubble stone single arched bridge of relatively large span, with rock faced stone large voussoirs and keystone to the arch. Edges of rock-faced arch stones are cut smooth. The stonework of the bridge soffit, in tooled blocks, is finely done, the masonry courses skewed, with rockfaced raised band at base of arch each side. The parapets have been rebuilt in the late C20, possibly with the loss of a string course below, but retaining the original large rock-faced stone coping blocks, raised coping block like short pier just short of NW end of each parapet. The abutments are curved out at the SE end.
Reason for designation
Included for its architectural interest as a finely-built skew arch of considerable size.
Nearby in the register
- Godre'r Rhos Independent Chapel and vestryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Gelli Galed FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walls of barn to NW of Gelli Galed FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Chapel of ease to the Church of St MargaretReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.