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
16741
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/02/1996
Date of Amendment
29/02/1996
Name of Property
Bridge 123 over the Montgomeryshire Canal
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Welshpool
Town
Locality
Belan
Easting
320685
Northing
303745
Street Side
Location
In the yard at Bank Farm, which is immediately W of the Carries Belan School Lane over the Montgomeryshire Canal.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Exterior
History: The Montgomeryshire Canal was built as far as Garthmyl, to the S of Welshpool, 1794-97, engineered by John and Thomas Dadford. In the 1880's and 1890's, the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company carried out an extensive programme of work on the canal, and it is likely that this bridge was rebuilt at this time, as a replica of the earlier design.
Description: Blue brick with stone copings to parapet. S single arched span, with slightly curving abutments, terminating in simple piers. Voussoir arch with advanced brick 'keystone'; plain string course defines the base of the parapet.
Included as a good example of a typical Montgomeryshire Canal Bridge from the late C19 phase of engineering.
Reference: Stephen Hughes, The Archaeology of the Montgomeryshire Canal, 1988.
Interior
Reason for designation
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