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
81005
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
13/01/1993
Date of Amendment
13/03/2003
Name of Property
Pont Llanfihangel (Partly in Llandysul Community)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llanfihangel-ar-Arth
Town
Locality
Llanfihangel ar Arth
Easting
245657
Northing
240247
Street Side
Location
Spanning the Afon Teifi approximately 350m N of the parish church.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Built c1849-51. An original design by R K Penson, county surveyor, was begun but was abandoned as too expensive. An alternative design, by W James of Cardiff, was then adopted. The contractor was Joseph Douglas of Llanelli.
Exterior
A shallow, humped-back, single-span bridge of coursed rock-faced stone. The wide segmental arch has rock-faced voussoirs, above which is a band at the base of the parapet. The parapet is coped to the ends of the abutments, and splayed out on the R (Ceredigion) bank on the downstream side. The abutments are slightly battered.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a finely designed arched bridge over the River Teifi.
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