Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
81195
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/06/2003
Date of Amendment
16/06/2003
Name of Property
Pont-Sarn
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Merthyr Tydfil
Community
Vaynor
Town
Merthyr Tydfil
Locality
Pontsarn
Easting
304525
Northing
209747
Street Side
Location
Situated some 150m S of the Pontsarn railway viaduct on a minor road from Pant to Vaynor crossing the Afon Taf Fechan.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Bridge, built 1864 at a cost of £45. The original wooden bridge was maintained jointly by Vaynor and Merthyr parishes and as a result of their failure to agree it became delapidated and collapsed in June 1864. It is said that part of the costs were met by the Crawshays, major ironmasters in Merthyr. In 1925 and again in 1955 a proposal was made to increase the road width from some 2.7m wide to approximately 6m wide to include a 1m footpath but it met strong opposition and was never proceeded with.
Exterior
Bridge, rock-faced limestone blocks with single shallow segmental arch and limestone voussiors. Parapets, which return along the SW side of the road, have rock-faced limestone coping repaired in cement in places and reinforced with iron rails on the W side. Roadway is some 2.7m wide.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a historically interesting bridge of the later C19.
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