Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Llyn Gigfran (partly in Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr Community)
Betws Gwerfil Goch, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 23 June 1967
- Locality
- Betws Gwerfil Goch
- Community
- Betws Gwerfil Goch
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.01013, -3.46327
- Cadw reference
- 96
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
Carrying a minor road from the Llanfihangel to Bettws Gwerfil Goch road across the Afon Alwen.
History
A bridge probably of the C17, mentioned in the County Surveyor's lists of the period; perhaps related to the establishment of the farm at Dolgynlas. It is also mentioned in 1833. The name is variously Pont Llyn Gigfran or Pont Llyn y Gigfran; it is also known locally as 'the Roman Bridge.'
This bridge was originally on the county boundary between Denbighshire and Merionethshire.
Exterior
Built of local rubble. A single semi-circular arch spanning approximately 14 m from rock foundations either side of the secluded gorge, the arch composed of 0.5 m voussoirs under a regulating course, providing a total height of 5.5 m above the water. Flush parallel-sided spandrels rise, without a string course, into flush parapets, coped with cramped slabs. The abutments are outset and splayed, terminating in square piers, from where they are continued as road parapets. The bridge is 4.87 m wide, providing an approximately level road carriageway of 3.77 m between the parapets.
Reason for designation
Included as a fine unaltered early County bridge, of considerable picturesqueness in its setting.
Nearby in the register
- Dolgynlas farmhouse with attached outbuilding rangesAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Maes Cadw Cruck BarnAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Capel-y-gro, with Ty-capel and Schoolroom, including railings in front of the graveyardReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Pont y BettwsTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.