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
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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