Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Chain Bridge (partly in Llanarth community)
Gobion Fawr, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanfair Kilgeddin, Abergavenny, Gobion Fawr, Monmouthshire, designated on 31 January 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 31 January 2000
- Locality
- Llanfair Kilgeddin
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Gobion Fawr
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.74515, -2.94826
- Cadw reference
- 87147
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)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on the B4598 Abergavenny to Usk road, bridging the Usk just north of the Chain Bridge Inn. The bridge is partly in Gwehelog Fawr Community.
History
Road bridge over the River Usk built 1905-6 (dated). A plaque records that it was opened on 26/7/1906, J J Webster MICE Engineer, William Tanner FSI County Surveyor, George Palmer of Neath, Contractor. A second plaque records that it was repaired in 1999 by Monmouthshire County Council. The bridge replaced a suspension bridge of c1830 and still retains the original name.
Exterior
Painted steel single arch bridge with paired bowstring lattice girder arches from which iron rods descend to carry fish bellied pierced iron girders under road deck. The two bowed trusses are connected over the roadway by two lattice girder spans. Decorative iron rails with moulded plinth, square posts, oval and circle pattern rails and moulded handrail. End rubblestone piers with dentilled cornices and caps, commemorative bronze panels fixed to west piers. Short length of coped squared rubblestone wall at each end. The very altered tollhouse from the previous bridge remains at the Llanover end of the bridge.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as an impressive example of early C20 bridge building technology that is also a fairly rare example of a bowstring girder road bridge.
Nearby in the register
- Chain Bridge (partly in Gobion Fawr community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Pont-Kemys FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Glanusk FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of All SaintsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.