Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
11875
Building Number
 
Grade
II*  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
03/03/1966  
Date of Amendment
23/07/2003  
Name of Property
Pont Spwdwr (Spudder's Bridge)  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire  
Community
Trimsaran  
Town
 
Locality
Spudder's Bridge  
Easting
243392  
Northing
205875  
Street Side
 
Location
Approximately 2km NW of Trimsaran village centre, by-passed by and set back from the modern road.  

Description


Broad Class
Transport  
Period
 

History
Probably built in the second half of the C16. Money was left for the repair of the bridge in 1571 and 1587. The wing walls were added by Thomas Kymer in 1770.  

Exterior
A single-carriageway rubble-stone bridge of 4 main spans, steeply ramped to the centre. The piers and abutments have V-shaped cutwaters rising to the parapet to form refuges. Each span has a pointed arch, of which the 2 central spans are wider and higher. The 2 southernmost arches span the river, the remaining 2 are built over floodplain. Further N are 2 additional low and narrow pointed arches built over the floodplain on the approach to the bridge. The plain parapet continues on the N side, where it forms a field boundary and terminates in a field gate.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed grade II* as an especially fine and well-preserved sub-medieval road bridge. Scheduled Ancient Monument Cm 006 (CAM).  

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