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
3746
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/05/1968
Date of Amendment
25/11/1998
Name of Property
Pont Bethania
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Beddgelert
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Bethania
Easting
262766
Northing
350644
Street Side
SE
Location
Spanning the Afon Glaslyn approximately 2.5km NE of Beddgelert village and carrying the old turnpike road; immediately SE of the modern road bridge.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Built c1805 for the new line of the Porthdinllaen-Capel Curig turnpike road.
Exterior
Large triple-span road bridge, approximately 20m long. Of rubble construction with wide segmental central arch and smaller segmental flanking arches; rough-dressed voussoirs recessed below archrings of narrow stones. On the upstream side are 2 low triangular cutwaters. The carriageway is humped to the centre and has slab-coped parapets, splayed at the approaches and terminating, at the southern end, in flat, shallow buttresses. At both ends the parapets adjoin low modern rubble walls.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a good early C19 3-span road bridge.
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