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
16986
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/11/1995
Date of Amendment
29/11/1995
Name of Property
Pont Newydd
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Cilycwm
Town
Locality
Cilycwm
Easting
275815
Northing
238432
Street Side
Location
Situated some 1.5 km S of Cilycwm on road to Llandovery.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
1822 road bridge over the Towy, built to similar technology as Dolauhirion Bridge (also in this community) of 1773, that is the revolutionary use of cylindrical piercing of the spandrels to lighten weight and provide a counterbalancing structural strength against the outward forces of the arch.
Exterior
Rubble stone road bridge, of single large elliptical arch with cut-stone voussoirs and keystones. Spandrels pierced by large weight-reducing circles, like Dolauhirion. Projecting shelf carrying parapet, following hump of bridge. Rubble stone parapets with flat tooled stone coping, the centre S capstone dated 1822. The abutments at SE and NW are splayed out on arches to ease approach lines.
Interior
Reason for designation
A handsome single-span stone bridge on the model of Dolauhirion
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