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
19556
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/03/1998
Date of Amendment
20/03/1998
Name of Property
Cil-cewydd Bridge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Forden with Leighton and Trelystan
Town
Locality
Cil-cewydd
Easting
322782
Northing
304088
Street Side
Location
The road bridge carries the main Welshpool to Ludlow road over the River Severn, approximately 5km SE of Welshpool.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Built in 1861 by the Oswestry and Newtown Railway Company to a design by R. K. Penson, then county surveyor, to carry the Second Division turnpike road from Forden to Welshpool over the River Severn. It replaced an earlier timber bridge. The county council contributed £2000 towards the cost. The company's railway bridge adjoins to the SW.
Exterior
The bridge is built in snecked squared rubble facings on a brick structure, and has an ashlar parapet. Four equal segmental spans on 3 water piers, each tapered and keeled up and down stream, with a capping string course from which the arches spring. Each arch consists of scappled and coursed-in voussoirs with a margin-drafted intrados, and numbered I to XXIII to the unemphasised centre stone. Above a scappled projecting string there is a 3-course parapet of ashlar, tapering down at the Forden end and supplied at this end only with an iron rail with clasping supports. The rail on the N side is replaced. The battered abutments are curved in plan, and the parapet sweeps down to ground level. The soffit of each arch is of brickwork.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a major bridge on the River Severn, designed by a well-established engineer in the bold style with local references characteristic of his work.
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