Cil-cewydd Bridge, Forden with Leighton and Trelystan (Ffordun gyda Tre'r-llai a Threlystan), Powys

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.629 / 52°37'44"N

Longitude: -3.1423 / 3°8'32"W

OS Eastings: 322782

OS Northings: 304088

OS Grid: SJ227040

Mapcode National: GBR B0.7H1G

Mapcode Global: WH79W.P5WV

Plus Code: 9C4RJVH5+J3

Entry Name: Cil-cewydd Bridge

Listing Date: 20 March 1998

Last Amended: 20 March 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 19556

Building Class: Transport

ID on this website: 300019556

Location: The road bridge carries the main Welshpool to Ludlow road over the River Severn, approximately 5km SE of Welshpool.

County: Powys

Community: Forden with Leighton and Trelystan (Ffordun gyda Tre'r-llai a Threlystan)

Community: Forden with Leighton and Trelystan

Locality: Cil-cewydd

Traditional County: Montgomeryshire

Tagged with: Bridge Road bridge

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History

Built in 1861 by the Oswestry and Newtown Railway Company to a design by R. K. Penson, then county surveyor, to carry the Second Division turnpike road from Forden to Welshpool over the River Severn. It replaced an earlier timber bridge. The county council contributed £2000 towards the cost. The company's railway bridge adjoins to the SW.

Exterior

The bridge is built in snecked squared rubble facings on a brick structure, and has an ashlar parapet. Four equal segmental spans on 3 water piers, each tapered and keeled up and down stream, with a capping string course from which the arches spring. Each arch consists of scappled and coursed-in voussoirs with a margin-drafted intrados, and numbered I to XXIII to the unemphasised centre stone. Above a scappled projecting string there is a 3-course parapet of ashlar, tapering down at the Forden end and supplied at this end only with an iron rail with clasping supports. The rail on the N side is replaced. The battered abutments are curved in plan, and the parapet sweeps down to ground level. The soffit of each arch is of brickwork.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a major bridge on the River Severn, designed by a well-established engineer in the bold style with local references characteristic of his work.

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II Workman's Hut
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II Loading Bay and Weighhouse at Cil-cewydd Corn Mill
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II Outbuilding at Cil-cewydd Mill
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II* Glanhafren
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Cil-cewydd Bridge

A Grade II Listed Building in Forden with Leighton and Trelystan (Ffordun gyda Tre'r-llai a Threlystan), Powys