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
87164
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/03/1996
Date of Amendment
09/12/2005
Name of Property
Llanellen Bridge (partly in Llanfoist Fawr community)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Llanover
Town
Abergavenny
Locality
Llanellen
Easting
330576
Northing
211009
Street Side
Location
Spanning the River Usk on a bend in the main road, to the east of Llanellen village; crossing the Community Council boundary and half in Llafoist Fawr Community.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Built in 1821 as a part of the Abergavenny-Pontypool turnpike. Designed and built by John Upton of Gloucester, engineer, who also designed Usk Bridge at Llanvihangel Gobion (qv) and restored and re-roofed St. Cadoc's Church at Llangattock-nigh-Usk (qv). He is best known for settling in Russia, building fortifications at Sebastopol, in the Crimea, and being taken prisoner by the allies at the end of the siege.
Exterior
Three arch ramped road bridge built of red sandstone ashlar. The semicircular arches have keystones and low pointed cutwaters with pilaster strips over; the downstream side has long modern concrete cutwaters to protect the bridge against scour, and there are attached pipelines. Parapets have flat ashlar coping swept out onto cylindrical piers at the ends. The one on the downstream Llanover side has been damaged and roughly repaired (July 2005). Inscribed stone to centre on downstream side parapet reads 'Designed and Builded by John Upton of Gloucester, Engineer 1821 for the County of Monmouth'.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as an elegantly designed three arch bridge dated 1821; a fine bridge of the turnpike age.
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