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Aberavon Bridge (partly in Port Talbot community)

A Grade II Listed Building in Port Talbot, Neath Port Talbot

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5968 / 51°35'48"N

Longitude: -3.784 / 3°47'2"W

OS Eastings: 276529

OS Northings: 190164

OS Grid: SS765901

Mapcode National: GBR H3.BQXR

Mapcode Global: VH5H1.C4F8

Plus Code: 9C3RH6W8+PC

Entry Name: Aberavon Bridge (partly in Port Talbot community)

Listing Date: 29 August 1979

Last Amended: 31 January 2000

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 22804

Building Class: Transport

ID on this website: 300022804

Location: The bridge crosses the River Afan and serves as the physical link between the shopping centres of Aberavon and Port Talbot, the former a development of the 1990s. The roadway is now pedestrianised.

County: Neath Port Talbot

Town: Port Talbot

Community: Aberavon (Aberafan)

Community: Aberavon

Built-Up Area: Port Talbot

Traditional County: Glamorgan

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History

Built in 1842 to the design of William Kirkhouse, engineer of the Tennant Canal and author of an unexecuted plan to extend the canal to Aberavon. Later widened by half, probably in 1893 (lower date on keystone). The bridge formerly carried the A48 trunk road.

Exterior

Bridge of 3 low segmental arches with flat deck. Spandrels and parapets faced with coursed stone; voussoirs, pilasters and cutwaters of tooled dressed stone. The voussoirs are of pecked stone, the raised keystones with herring bone decoration. The central keystone on the S side bears the dates '1842' and '1893'. The pilasters rise from the triangular cutwaters to the tops of the parapets. String course to parapets which have flat stone coping. Straight abutments, mainly rebuilt.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a C19 bridge of unusually high architectural quality.

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