Latitude: 52.6727 / 52°40'21"N
Longitude: -3.1156 / 3°6'56"W
OS Eastings: 324659
OS Northings: 308911
OS Grid: SJ246089
Mapcode National: GBR B1.4PM9
Mapcode Global: WH79Q.32MX
Plus Code: 9C4RMVFM+3P
Entry Name: Buttington Bridge
Listing Date: 11 March 1981
Last Amended: 24 January 1995
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 15647
Building Class: Transport
ID on this website: 300015647
County: Powys
Community: Trewern (Tre-wern)
Community: Trewern
Locality: Buttington
Built-Up Area: Gungrog
Traditional County: Montgomeryshire
Tagged with: Road bridge
The main road bridge across the River Severn, partly in the Community Area of Welshpool.
Single-span bridge built in 1872, by W.N.Swettenham, County Surveyor for Montgomeryshire. Five elliptical iron arches reinforced with later steel framing, springing from rusticated stone abutments, and having a cast iron parapet consisting of zig-zag line with bold trefoil decoration, cast in two halves in sections approximately 1.6m long. The abutments have very shallow elliptical land arches of yellow stone with red sandstone quoin decoration and keystones, and rise to small refuges at road level. The bridge is approached by causeways of rusticated stone on both sides.
An interesting late use of cast iron in prefabricated sections to provide a worthy major river bridge.
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