Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Yr Hen Bont
Blaenrheidol, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Ponterwyd, Aberystwyth, Blaenrheidol, Ceredigion, designated on 21 January 1964.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 21 January 1964
- Locality
- Ponterwyd
- Town
- Aberystwyth
- Community
- Blaenrheidol
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.41154, -3.84155
- Cadw reference
- 9825
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (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)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 163 Aberystwyth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated some 100m upstream of A44 bridge over the Rheidol, opposite Ponterwyd chapel.
History
Road bridge over the Afon Rheidol, probably later C18. A new bridge to the S was built when the new turnpike road to Llangurig was built in 1812, this demolished and rebuilt in C20. The old bridge has been attributed to the famous bridge builder William Edwards of Pontypool (1719-89) without evidence. Its narrow humped profile makes it one of the most distinctive bridges of the county.
Exterior
Road bridge over Rheidol, rubble stone fine broad single arch, 15.5m span, of distinctly humped profile. Stone voussoirs to arch. Thin crown to arch. Rubble parapets with end-on stone copings, each side of narrow roadway of 2.4m width.
Reason for designation
Included as a particularly fine steep single-arched bridge of C18 date.
Scheduled Ancient Monument CD006.
Nearby in the register
- Hen Bont, Pont-ErwydBridgeunder 1 mi
- Ponterwyd Calvinistic Methodist Chapel and attached chapel houseReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- PenybontDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former chapel schoolroomReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.