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Latitude: 52.7459 / 52°44'45"N
Longitude: -3.0408 / 3°2'26"W
OS Eastings: 329836
OS Northings: 316988
OS Grid: SJ298169
Mapcode National: GBR B4.041H
Mapcode Global: WH8BH.877Q
Plus Code: 9C4RPXW5+9M
Entry Name: Llandrinio Bridge
Listing Date: 31 January 1953
Last Amended: 29 December 1994
Grade: I
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 7614
Building Class: Transport
Also known as: Llandrinio Bridge (That Part In Forden R.D.)
ID on this website: 300007614
Location: Partly within the community area of Bausley with Crigion. The bridge provides a crossing for the Llanfyllin to Shrewsbury Road over the River Severn, superceding a ford a little to the north.
County: Powys
Community: Llandrinio
Community: Llandrinio
Traditional County: Montgomeryshire
Tagged with: Bridge Road bridge
Road bridge. Erected 1769-1775 by Act of Parliament with monies borrowed on security to the anticipated toll revenue (tolls were collected until c.1862). Engineer probably John Gwynn of Shrewsbury.
Three semicircular arches, the centre higher providing a peaked cambered roadway, reduced to 3.75m width. The arches, spanning 45m, have a plain inner ring, followed by a ring of raised and chamfered voussoirs. Piers have triangular cutwaters rising to a wide band, continued up as shallow pilaster, against which the pier is swept into an attached ball finial. Square band at the base of the parapet, which develops into a cornice over the piers. Three course parapet with hog backed coping, bearing a roughly inscribed date 1775 on one pier. The ends of the parapets are splayed out to rectangular terminal piers.
Scheduled Ancient Monument Mg 46
An interesting and elegant example of work probably by John Gwynn, the engineer of the English Bridge at Shrewsbury and Magdalen Bridge at Oxford.
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