Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
82343
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/01/1980
Date of Amendment
22/12/2003
Name of Property
Bridge over S end of Skewen Cutting, Tennant Canal (partly in Coedffranc community)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Dyffryn Clydach
Town
Neath
Locality
Neath Abbey
Easting
273139
Northing
196914
Street Side
E
Location
Spanning the Tennant Canal immediately N of the A465 and reached by a minor road S of the A465 from Neath Abbey Industrial Estate.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
The Tennant Canal was built 1820-4, engineered by William Kirkhouse. The head of the canal was at Aberdulais, where it joins the Neath Canal, and ended at Port Tennant on the E side of the River Tawe in Swansea. Traffic was carried on the canal until the 1930s. Skewen Cutting is a stone-lined bed and was laid in 1821 to counter problems with quicksand. The bridge is probably contemporary with the cutting and is shown on the 1844 Tithe map.
Exterior
A single-carriageway, single-span bridge of rubble stone with tooled voussoirs and jambs to a segmental arch. The abutments with integral parapet curve outwards. Some C19 coping stones survive, composed of square blocks or half-round blocks of copper slag. The flat deck, probably designed for a tramroad, is grass covered.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with other listed items associated with the Tennant Canal. Scheduled Ancient Monument GM 394.
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