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
22798
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/01/2000
Date of Amendment
31/01/2000
Name of Property
The Chain Bridge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Llanarth
Town
Usk
Locality
Kemeys Commander
Easting
334640
Northing
205575
Street Side
Location
Situated on B4598 Abergavenny to Usk road, bridging the Usk just N of the Chain Bridge Inn. Partly in Llanover C.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Steel arched bridge over the River Usk of 1905-6. Two big parallel arched latticed girders from which roadway is suspended by iron rods. Plaque records that it was opened on 26/7/1906, J.J. Webster MICE Engineer, William Tanner FSI County Surveyor, George Palmer of Neath, Contractor. Another plaque records that it was repaired in 1999 by Monmouthshire County Council. The bridge replaces a suspension bridge of c1830, from which the name remains.
Exterior
Road bridge over the River Usk. Painted steel single span bridge with bowed lattice-girder arches from which iron rods descend to carry fish-belly pierced iron girders under road deck. The two bowed trusses are connected over the roadway by 2 lattice girder spans. Iron decorative rails with moulded plinth, square posts, oval and circle pattern rails, and moulded handrail. End rubble stone piers with dentiled cornices under parapet level. Parapet has panelled sandstone ashlar long piers each end with moulded cornices and caps, commemorative bronze panels fixed to W piers. Short lengths of coped squared rubble stone wall each end.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included an impressive example of early C20 bridge-building technology.
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