Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
19681
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/12/1989
Date of Amendment
22/04/1998
Name of Property
The King's Bridge (partly in Llangollen Community)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Llantysilio
Town
Llangollen
Locality
Pentrefelin
Easting
319773
Northing
343238
Street Side
Location
The viaduct carries the road from Pentrefelin to Berwyn over the Llangollen Canal, the River Dee and beneath the Llangollen and Corwen Railway viaduct.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
The viaduct was built in 1902-1906 to connect the N and S bank of the Dee, and named by royal consent to commemorate the Coronation of King Edward VII.
Exterior
Built of rock-faced rubble with arches turned in blue engineering brick. Five segmental arches set on 3 water piers at the S end, sloping slightly to the S where it is threaded through one arch of the earlier railway viaduct, built after 1862. The piers have triangular cutwaters on the upstream side. The arches comprise five courses of brick, and a 150mm bull-nosed outer regulating string. Flush spandrels rising to a horizontal string at the base of the snecked parapet, which is coped with flush margin-dressed flat stones. End pilasters. A further projecting course is placed at the springing of the arches. On the inside face of the parapet an inscription reads TO COMMEMORATE / THE CORONATION OF/ KING EDWARD VII. The southern arch, spanning the Llangollen Canal, is numbered 49A in the canal bridge series.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a handsome and carefully contrived bridge, of group value with the railway viaduct, Berwyn Railway Station and the Llangollen Canal.
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