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Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
11514
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/01/1988
Date of Amendment
20/02/2003
Name of Property
Quakers Yard Railway Viaduct
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Merthyr Tydfil
Community
Treharris
Town
Merthyr Tydfil
Locality
Quakers Yard
Easting
308853
Northing
196473
Street Side
Location
Crossing the Afon Taf just S of Edwardsville.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Railway bridge over the Afon Taf of 1840-1 by I K Brunel built for the Taff Vale Railway, opened April 1841, doubled in width before 1861. A remarkable early railway bridge of massive construction with octagonal piers necessitating deep chamfers to the arches. The viaduct crosses the line of the Penydarren tramroad on the N side of the river.
Exterior
Railway viaduct over the Afon Taf. Very tall slightly curving viaduct of 6 arches, the original viaduct upstream and only visible from N. Massive rock-faced squared masonry and highly modelled octagonal piers, the rock-facing tooled at edges, banded 3 times with broad 3-course bands of tooled masonry, and the capitals of 6 stepped courses of rock-faced stone. Remarkable arches deeply splayed at edges, the splays in tooled stone as also the arch soffits. Rockfaced stone in spandrels, big coved string course in tooled stone and rock-faced stone parapets with ashlar copings. Splayed out ends to abutments.
Addition of matching scale is simpler, having regular piers, caps in 2 courses, arches with rock-faced stone voussoirs and vermiculated keystones. Coved string course breaks forward over keystones.
Interior
Reason for designation
Graded II* as one of the most remarkable bridges by Brunel to survive in Wales.
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