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
7856
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
11/03/1981  
Date of Amendment
29/02/1996  
Name of Property
Pair of Inscribed Stones in Union Bridge Parapet  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Welshpool  
Town
 
Locality
Welshpool  
Easting
322527  
Northing
307632  
Street Side
N  
Location
 

Description


Broad Class
Transport  
Period
 

History
 

Exterior
History: The history of the bridge is recorded on the 2 stone panels: "Union Bridge Built 1817 on the happy Union of the Powis and Wynnstay Families at the expense of the Fund for the Employment of the Poor Under the direction of the acting Committee of Welshpool"; and "The inscribed stone above [now alongside], originally inserted in the opposite parapet, was refixed in its present position by the Welshpool and Llanfair Railway Company, January 1902". The bridge formerly carried the road over the Lledan Brook, but this was culverted (presumably by the Railway Company in 1902), leaving only a single parapet as a memorial. The railway company, established in 1898, opened the line in 1903. It was finally closed in 1956. The bridge parapet has again been rebuilt since 1981, re-siting both stone panels alongside, rather than over, each other. Description: Red engineering brick parapet with rounded stone copings. The 2 stone panels were formerly one above the other, with the coping stepped up over them, but are now alongside each other. The parapet has been partially rebuilt since it was first listed in 1981, but remains listed for the historical interest as recorded in the 2 stone panels. Reference: Ralph Cartwright and R.T.Russell, The Welshpool and Llanfair Railway, 1972.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
 

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