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
1706
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/11/1962
Date of Amendment
07/05/1998
Name of Property
Sarn Bridge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Willington Worthenbury
Town
Wrexham
Locality
Tallarn Green
Easting
344008
Northing
344743
Street Side
Location
To north-west of Tallarn Green, spanning the Wych Brook, the border between Wales and England.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
The Sarn is an early fording point and a date of 1627 is inscribed on the bridge. However a further date of 1819 records the work of the then Flintshire County Surveyor Jonathan Turner and the character of the bridge suggests that this work was probably a full rebuilding. The bridge has been widened on the upstream side, presumably in 1925, the third date inscribed here.
Exterior
Coursed stone bridge composed of two segmental arches with stone-slab parapets to the road set on stone band. On the downstream side a triangular sectioned cutwater. Inscriptions to cutwater include "John and David Smith, freemasons of this Bridge, AD 1627, restored 1925". Also records the work in 1819 of the Flintshire County Surveyor, Jonathan Turner.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as an elegant early C18 bridge with earlier origins.
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