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Pont Bethania

A Grade II Listed Building in Beddgelert, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.0354 / 53°2'7"N

Longitude: -4.0481 / 4°2'53"W

OS Eastings: 262766

OS Northings: 350644

OS Grid: SH627506

Mapcode National: GBR 5T.DTBG

Mapcode Global: WH551.SYJV

Plus Code: 9C5Q2XP2+5Q

Entry Name: Pont Bethania

Listing Date: 29 May 1968

Last Amended: 25 November 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 3746

Building Class: Transport

ID on this website: 300003746

Location: Spanning the Afon Glaslyn approximately 2.5km NE of Beddgelert village and carrying the old turnpike road; immediately SE of the modern road bridge.

County: Gwynedd

Town: Caernarfon

Community: Beddgelert

Community: Beddgelert

Locality: Bethania

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

Tagged with: Bridge Road bridge

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History

Built c1805 for the new line of the Porthdinllaen-Capel Curig turnpike road.

Exterior

Large triple-span road bridge, approximately 20m long. Of rubble construction with wide segmental central arch and smaller segmental flanking arches; rough-dressed voussoirs recessed below archrings of narrow stones. On the upstream side are 2 low triangular cutwaters. The carriageway is humped to the centre and has slab-coped parapets, splayed at the approaches and terminating, at the southern end, in flat, shallow buttresses. At both ends the parapets adjoin low modern rubble walls.

Reasons for Listing

Listed for its special interest as a good early C19 3-span road bridge.

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