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
18618
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/07/1997
Date of Amendment
29/07/1997
Name of Property
Former railway bridge at Bontnewydd
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Bontnewydd
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Bontnewydd
Easting
247899
Northing
360005
Street Side
Location
Crossing the Afon Gwyrfai and a minor road to Llanfaglan, some 400m W of the A487 in the centre of Bontnewydd.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Railway bridge possibly of c1867 over Afon Gwyrfai and road to Llanfaglan. The Caernarfon to Afonwen Railway opened in 1867, built by Thomas Savin partly on the earlier Nantlle narrow gauge railway, but this railway crossed the river on a different site according to 1842 Tithe Map.
Exterior
Large triple-arched railway bridge in rock-faced squared stone with broad brick segmental arches. Arches have five courses of brickwork. Two big piers, low parapets.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-detailed example of a large mid-C19 railway bridge.
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