Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cenarth Bridge
Cenarth, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in Cenarth, Carmarthenshire, recorded as Bridge (Post Medieval/Modern).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Bridge
- Period
- Post Medieval/Modern
- Community
- Cenarth
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.04557, -4.52536
- SAM number
- CM017
- Cadw record number
- 442
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 1588 map "Ortelius, Abraham: Theatro De La Tierra Universal. 0" (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1588 · Ortelius, Abraham: Theatro De La Tierra Universal. 0 (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1860 · 41. Caermathen. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 194 Llangranog (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument consists of a very fine stone bridge carrying a road across the River Teifi, built 1785-7 by David Edwards, one of the bridge-builder sons of the Rev. William Edwards, pioneer of pierced-spandrel bridges at Pontypridd 1756. It is built of rubble masonry and comprises three broad elliptical arches carried on short stone piers. The two spandrels are pierced by large circular openings with dressed stone surrounds, designed to reduce structural weight and allow floodwater through. The 1m high rubble stone parapets have copings of large flat slate slabs.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of medieval or post-medieval construction techniques and transportation systems. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. The structure itself may be expected to contain archaeological information concerning chronology and building techniques.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Cenarth Bridge (partly in Carmarthen District)Transportunder 1 mi
- Cenarth Bridge (Partly in Ceredigion District)Transportunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box outside Cenarth Post OfficeCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Glantrifi (The Post Office)Communicationsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.