Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
11833
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/01/1980
Date of Amendment
29/03/2000
Name of Property
Bridge over S end of Skewen Cutting, Tennant Canal (partly in Dyffryn Clydach community)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Coedffranc
Town
Locality
Tennant Canal
Easting
273135
Northing
196915
Street Side
W
Location
Spanning the Tennant Canal immediately N of the A465 and reached by a minor road beneath the A465 from Neath Abbey Industrial Estate.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
The Tennant Canal was built 1820-4, engineered by William Kirkhouse. The head of the canal was at Aberdulais, where it joins the Neath Canal, and ended at Port Tennant on the E side of the River Tawe in Swansea. Traffic was carried on the canal until the 1930s. Skewen Cutting is a stone-lined bed and was laid in 1821 to counter problems with quicksand. The bridge is probably contemporary with the cutting and is shown on the 1844 Tithe map.
Exterior
A single-carriageway, single-span bridge of rubble stone with tooled voussoirs and jambs to a segmental arch. The abutments with integral parapet curve outwards. Some C19 coping stones survive, composed of square blocks or half-round blocks of copper slag. The flat deck, probably designed for a tramroad, is grass covered.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with other listed items associated with the Tennant Canal.
Scheduled Ancient Monument Gm 394.
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