Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
13/03/2003
Date of Amendment
13/03/2003
Name of Property
Ynysmeudwy Ganol Overbridge on Swansea Canal
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Location
Situated on the Swansea Canal between the Ynysmeudwy Uchaf and Ynysmeuwy Isaf overbridges some 1.4km NE of the centre of Pontardawe.
History
Canal bridge, late C18, over the Swansea Canal. The 16-mile Swansea Canal was opened in 1798 to Hen Neuadd, Abercraf, declined after the railway opened in 1852 and closed in 1931.
Exterior
Canal overbridge, rubble stone single arch bridge. Segmental arch with tooled cut stone voussoirs. Abutments curve out each side to square end piers. To N the parapet has been extended past the end piers. Parapets and piers have cement rounded copings.
Reason for designation
Included as an intact canal overbridge apparently of the late C18.
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