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
11236
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/07/1963
Date of Amendment
29/01/1999
Name of Property
New Bridge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Merthyr Mawr
Town
Locality
Merthyr Mawr
Easting
289157
Northing
177965
Street Side
Location
Crossing the Ogmore river approximately 1km NE of Merthyr Mawr church.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Built in 1827 (date on bridge) by Morgan Thomas of Laleston, for Sir John Nicholl of Merthyr Mawr Estate. Nicholl had purchased the Merthyr Mawr Estate in 1804 and built a new mansion for himself, for which he appropriated the original road to Merthyr Mawr village as his private drive. A new road was therefore adopted, requiring a new bridge across the River Ogmore. The present bridge replaced an earlier bridge with a wooden deck on stone piers which had been erected early C19.
Exterior
Single-carriageway road bridge of coursed, hammer-dressed stone, ramped to centre. Abutments are wider than the deck and have rounded angles. Three segmental arches have projecting keystones. V-shaped cutwaters are stepped up to a projecting band at the base of a low parapet. Parapet has flat coping (part renewed in reconstituted stone) and terminates with square piers on L bank (with later stone walls attached). Later stone walls are also attached on R bank. On the upstream side is a tablet set into the parapet and inscribed: "This Bridge was built and finished at the expence [sic] of the Right Honourable Sir John Nicholl under the inspection of William [Whirlington?] Country Surveyor by Morgan Thomas of Laleston AD 1827".
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed Grade II*, New Bridge is a fine example of an early C19 road bridge, its design similar to the Glan-Rhyd tramroad viaduct near Tondu.
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