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Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
80801
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/12/2002
Date of Amendment
31/12/2002
Name of Property
Pont-y-clochydd
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Banwy
Town
Locality
Foel
Easting
299096
Northing
311990
Street Side
Location
Over the Afon Twrch about 500m upstream from Pont Twrch.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
A mediaeval bridge which came to be called pont-y-clochydd because of the proximity of the house of the
sextant (Pen-y-bont).
A short abandoned hollow lane leads down to the bridge from the road on the west side. As an early
crossing of the Twrch the bridge is reputed to have been used in the early C15 by Owain Glyndwr
passing from Machynlleth to Sycharth and in 1485 by Henry Tudor on his way to Bosworth.
Exterior
A single arch bridge in quasi-rubble slate masonry, with a segmental span of about 8 m, built about 5 m
above the Afon Twrch. The voussoirs are not of regularised height and the common masonry is uncoursed.
The bridge carries a cobbled roadway about 2½ m wide between uncoped and uncoursed parapets less
than 1 m high.
Interior
Reason for designation
A remarkable survival of a simple vernacular bridge of considerable antiquity in unaltered condition
including its cobbled paving.
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