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
1757
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
16/06/1980  
Date of Amendment
31/01/1994  
Name of Property
Kingsmills Bridge over River Clywedog  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Wrexham  
Community
Caia Park  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
334724  
Northing
349163  
Street Side
 
Location
Partly in the Communities of Offa and Marchwiel.  

Description


Broad Class
Transport  
Period
 

History
The two bridges are sited at the confluence of the Rivers Clywedog and Gwenfro, and carry the Kingsmill and Abenbury Roads. Pair of bridges. Robert Jones of Nantglyn, a mason, contracted for the construction of Kingsmill Bridge in 1782, and the bridge over the Gwenfro is dated 1829.  

Exterior
Kingsmill Bridge is the principal bridge: Coursed and squared yellow sandstone, with moulded cornice over single arch, which has channelled voussoirs and heavy keystone. Stepped abutments each side terminating in square-section outer piers. Shallow coppings to parapet. A curved wall links this bridge to the subordinate bridge over the River Gwenfro at right angles to it and immediatly to the E: rougher corsed and squared stone to linking wall, well coursed and squared stone to its parapet and the masonry of the second bridge. This bridge is also a single span, and is built on a shallow concave curve, with plain string course over archway inscribed with date, and with heavy stone blocks to parapet which has shallow copings.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Both bridges have considerable architectural quality, and together they form a striking and unusual example of highway engineering.  

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