Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
82341
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/12/2003
Date of Amendment
22/12/2003
Name of Property
Bridge over Tennant Canal N of former Mines Royal Copper Works
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Dyffryn Clydach
Town
Neath
Locality
Neath Abbey
Easting
273336
Northing
197265
Street Side
Location
Crossing the Tennant Canal just NE of the road through Neath Abbey Business Park.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Bridge over the canal probably to former Mines Royal Copper Works and possibly contemporary with the building of the canal in 1821. Later the roadway raised by infilling between parapets in concrete creating a flat deck probably for a tramroad although not marked as such on the OS First Edition of 1884.
Exterior
Bridge, rubble stone with some blocks of furnace slag. single segmental arch with sandstone voussoirs. Rubble parapets with slag coping blocks. Roadway infilled in concrete and raised some 60cm above parapet copings. Slag copings on E side are to a quarter-round profile.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for historic transport interest as an early C19 canal bridge modified to accommodate a tramroad.
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