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
628
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/01/1966
Date of Amendment
29/07/1998
Name of Property
Cefn (Newbridge) Railway Viaduct (partly in Cefn Community)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Chirk
Town
Locality
Newbridge
Easting
328545
Northing
341144
Street Side
S
Location
The viaduct carries the railway across the wide valley of the River Dee between Newbridge and Cefn-bychan.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
The viaduct was built to the design of Henry Robinson of Llantysilio, chief engineer to the Shrewsbury to Chester Railway, in 1846, Thomas Brassey being the general contractor, and completed in August 1848. The cost was £72,346. The Shrewsbury Chester line was initiated by 'King' Robinson, who had received his training under George Stephenson, and who recognised the need, not met by the canals, to transport materials to Wrexham and Chester. The line became part of the Great Western Railway system in 1854.
Exterior
Built of coursed squared rock-faced sandstone, the upper arched stage of brick faced with stone. It is 460m (1,508ft) long, comprising 19 arches of 18.2m (60ft) span, rising 46m (147ft) above the river. The main piers are tapered upwards to the springing line, above which the arch voussoirs are recessed behind the face. Above, the low parapet is carried on a corbel table.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included at grade II* as a highly impressive and architecturally elegant example of mid C19 railway engineering.
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