Footbridge over lake at Machen House, Graig, Newport

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5858 / 51°35'8"N

Longitude: -3.1174 / 3°7'2"W

OS Eastings: 322676

OS Northings: 188032

OS Grid: ST226880

Mapcode National: GBR J0.CBK3

Mapcode Global: VH6DV.XD9N

Plus Code: 9C3RHVPM+82

Entry Name: Footbridge over lake at Machen House

Listing Date: 4 October 1990

Last Amended: 22 August 2003

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 3087

Building Class: Transport

ID on this website: 300003087

Location: Some 65m SW of the house in Lower Machen. Machen House is set in its own grounds beside the Parish Church.

County: Newport

Town: Newport

Community: Graig

Locality: Lower Machen

Traditional County: Monmouthshire

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History

Picturesque landscape feature to gardens laid out as setting for Machen House, built 1831 for the Rev C.A.S. Morgan, and part of a very unusual miniature landscape garden with Gothic features to outside walls, servants' accommodation and beebole. The bridge however is hardly Gothic and seems in form if not detail to be based on the Chinese willow-pattern bridge
The bridge spans the S end of a small ornamental lake, one of two in the garden.

Exterior

Footbridge, rock-faced rubble stone with squared stone dressings, of 3 arches, slightly humped with narrow footway. Arches are segmental-curved and shallow with cut stone voussoirs and separated by tiny triangular-section shafts on corbels extended up to the low parapets. Parapets are splayed out at ends, copings are of tooled stone and end at piers with small pyramidal caps. Pyramidal caps also on parapets over the dividing shafts.

Reasons for Listing

Included as an attractive stone bridge designed as a picturesque landscape feature in a remarkable small landscaped garden.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Gatepiers, gate and garden walls to Machen House
On the S and W side of the house in Lower Machen. Machen House is set in its own grounds beside the Parish Church.
II Garden walls to S, W and N of Nantygarth
On the W side of Lower Machen and on the N side of the main road through the village.
II* Machen House including attached outbuildings and curved screen wall
In the centre of the village immediately to W of the Parish Church. Set in its own landscaped grounds and reached by short drive with gate piers.
II The Old Post
On S side of village main road, some 150m SW of the church.
II The Toll House
On the W side of Lower Machen and on the S side of the main road through the village.
II Volland House, The Forge, No 3 and Volland Cottage
On the W side of Lower Machen and on the N side of the main road through the village.
II Trough and surround in wall to The Court
On the W side of the road N through Lower Machen village just S of the churchyard gates.
II Churchyard gates and piers to the Church of St Michael
On the S side of the churchyard of the Church of Saint Michael.

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Footbridge over lake at Machen House

A Grade II Listed Building in Graig, Newport