Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Einon
Tregaron, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Cors Caron, Tregaron, Ceredigion, designated on 5 December 1963.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 5 December 1963
- Locality
- Cors Caron
- Town
- Tregaron
- Community
- Tregaron
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.23399, -3.94747
- Cadw reference
- 9910
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 · 178 Llanilar (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated some 1.5 km NW of Tregaron, just next to A485 road bridge of 1972.
History
Early C19 road bridge over the Teifi, with modern plaque giving date of 1805 and 1972 date for adjoining bridge.
Exterior
Rubble stone three-arched humped bridge with two cutwaters each side and raised piers above. Raised piers to each end also. Arches are recessed with stone voussoirs and raised keystones. String course above breaks forward over piers. Parapets are splayed out each end and have stone coping. Raised square piers with stone coping over outer piers of bridge, much smaller raised piers, not breaking through parapet coping, over two centre piers.
Reason for designation
Listed as a fine Georgian road bridge, of a design quality found only in the major bridges of the region.
Nearby in the register
- TrefelinDomestic1 mi
- National Westminster BankCommercial1 mi
- Bwlchgwynt ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
- Church of Saint CaronReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.