Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
24959
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/03/2001
Date of Amendment
09/03/2001
Name of Property
Pont Sancler (partly listed in St Clears community)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llanddowror
Town
Carmarthen
Locality
St Clears
Easting
228033
Northing
215261
Street Side
Location
At the end of Bridge Street, across the River Taf, on the community boundary with St Clears.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Road bridge over the Afon Taf, built on the site of an earlier road bridge in 1827-8, by William Morgan for £500. C20 repairs to parapet wall and ties inserted for structural reinforcement, the ties not visible in a photograph of c.1900.
Exterior
Road bridge, single arch span with each spandrel pierced by a circular opening. Both main arch and circles have fine cut stone voussoirs. Projecting sill at carriageway level to both sides below renewed rubble stone parapet with limestone coping. Square piers to bridge head terminals with ridged grey limestone capstones. Rubble stone abutments each side, those on N continued as stone walls each side of roadway, roadway and embankment removed on S. Bridge is reinforced with late C20 metal ties.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a broad-span single arch bridge with distinctive spandrel holes in the manner of the pioneering design by William Edwards at Pontypridd in the C18.
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