Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bangor Bridge
Sesswick, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Bridge
- Period
- Medieval
- Community
- Sesswick
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.00277, -2.91364
- SAM number
- FL017
- Cadw record number
- 3781
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Monument.
The monument consists of the remains of a bridge, dating to the medieval or post-medieval period. The bridge has five elliptical arches, with parapets carried over the arches on each side making eight triangular recesses for foot passengers.
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
- Bangor Bridge (Partly in the Sesswick community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Bangor Bridge (Partly in Bangor-is-y-Coed Community)Transportunder 1 mi
- War MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Old Bridge HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.