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
4133
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
02/08/1988
Date of Amendment
02/08/1988
Name of Property
Railway Viaduct (partly in Llandygai community)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Bangor
Town
Locality
Maesgeirchen
Easting
258801
Northing
371041
Street Side
W
Location
SE of Bangor on Boundary with Llandegai Community. Carrying the Chester to Holyhead main line over the Afon Cegin. Reached along the footpath (dismantled railway) N off the Llandegai to Minffordd road.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
The Chester to Holyhead railway was proposed to improve links with Ireland. The bill was passed in July 1844 with Robert Stephenson as engineer and Francis Thompson of Derby as architect. This viaduct is likely to be by Stephenson with assistance from Mr Foster the resident engineer for this stretch of the line. Opened 1st May 1848 and taken over by LNWR in 1859. From 1879 to 1963 the Penrhyn Quarry Railway passed underneath on the E bank of the river before joining with the LNWR Port Penrhyn branch line.
Exterior
7-semicircular arches. Rock faced and heavily tooled red sandstone masonry with rusticated voussoirs and quoins. Brick soffits to the arches and plinths and freestone impost bands to each pie; cornice and plain parapet. The end piers slightly project and those flanking the river have ramped brick bases.
Interior
Reason for designation
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