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Pont Llanfihangel

A Grade II Listed Building in Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr, Conwy

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.0315 / 53°1'53"N

Longitude: -3.5049 / 3°30'17"W

OS Eastings: 299173

OS Northings: 349308

OS Grid: SH991493

Mapcode National: GBR 6J.F12F

Mapcode Global: WH66N.4279

Plus Code: 9C5R2FJW+J2

Entry Name: Pont Llanfihangel

Listing Date: 23 June 1967

Last Amended: 1 April 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 94

Building Class: Transport

ID on this website: 300000094

Location: The bridge carries the B5105 Cerrigydrudion to Ruthin Road over the Afon Alwen at the centre of Llanfihangel.

County: Conwy

Community: Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr

Community: Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr

Locality: Llanfihangel

Traditional County: Denbighshire

Tagged with: Bridge Road bridge

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History

The bridge was designed by Thomas Penson, County architect and surveyor, following an order to enlarge the bridge made in August 1795, and work was apparently undertaken after June 1797. It is sited slightly upstream from the bridge which it replaced.

Exterior

Built of local shale rubble. A single semi-circular arch formed with regular sized voussoirs and a square cut regulating course, providing a clear span of 16.2m, the arch rising 7.65m above water level. Flush parapets rise to a slightly cambered square cut string course, and to the flush parapet above, which has a flush bullnosed gritstone coping, originally cramped together with iron. The sides are parallel, splaying out only at the ends to terminate in square piers, from which small curved walls return to the road margin. The bridge is 6.5m wide, providing a carriageway of 5.5m between the parapets. The retaining wall on the S side is slightly battered and a few copings have been replaced in concrete beyond the bridge at the S end.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a fine example of late C18 bridge construction, and of group value with the Crown Inn and outbuilding.

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  • II The Crown Inn and stable building
    The inn is dramatically set under a crag on the bank of the Afon Alwen close to the NE side of Llanfihangel Bridge, where the road takes a sharp corner on the route to Ruthin.
  • II* Church of St Michael
    The church stands in a modified oval churchyard, approximately 250m W of Llanfihangel Bridge on the road up the Afon Alwen valley.
  • II Tan-llan (The White Cottage)
    The house lies directly opposite the church, on the S side of the road running W and N from the centre of the village to Pentre-llyn-cymmer.
  • II The Old Rectory also known as Pennant
    The building stands back from the road from Llanfihangel running N to Pentre-llyn-cymmer, approximately 800m from the village centre, and on the W slope of the valley of the Afon Alwen.
  • II Carthouse/Granary at Bodtegir
    The carthouse/granary is located parallel to and to the NW of the Old Farmhouse.
  • II* Bodtegir Old Farmhouse
    Bodtegir is a large farm SE of Llanfihangel, reached by a farm road across open ground from the minor road above the Alwen valley leading to Maerdy and Bettws Gwerful-goch. The old house lies at an a

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