Pont y Cim

Cadw's description

Summary description and reason for designation

The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Monument.

A narrow stone bridge with its origins in the early 17th century.

The bridge consists of a single segmental arch of 6.7m span. It is built of mortared local stone rubble with well-cut voussoirs inset slightly from the face of the wall above. The carriageway is only 2.1m across, plus parapets of 0.4m width. The parapets are low, coped with unshaped stones on end and with modern galvanised steel posts set into them, holding three parallel wires. At the N end, the causeway approach has 2 small square flood culverts each about 1m square.

The bridge was at some time widened by 0.75-0.80m on the upstream side, but most of the newer part was seriously damaged by a flood in 1935 after which it was reduced to its original width. Some of the superstructure of the old arch appears to have been rebuilt. Originally in the top of the parapet on the upstream side, but now at the south end of the downstream side, is a stone carrying an inscription in very crude and uneven lettering: CATRING BWKLE HA/TH GIVE 20 POVNDS/TO MACK THIS BRIGHE/1612.

The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of post-medieval bridge construction and transport. The structure 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.