Footbridge and walls of Baglan brook around churchyard of St Catharine, Baglan, Neath Port Talbot

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.6148 / 51°36'53"N

Longitude: -3.8029 / 3°48'10"W

OS Eastings: 275269

OS Northings: 192203

OS Grid: SS752922

Mapcode National: GBR H3.9D4X

Mapcode Global: VH5GV.1NFY

Plus Code: 9C3RJ57W+WV

Entry Name: Footbridge and walls of Baglan brook around churchyard of St Catharine

Listing Date: 31 January 2000

Last Amended: 31 January 2000

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 22810

Building Class: Miscellaneous

ID on this website: 300022810

Location: On the E and SW sides of the churchyard

County: Neath Port Talbot

Community: Baglan

Built-Up Area: Port Talbot

Traditional County: Glamorgan

Tagged with: Footbridge

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History

Structural details suggest that the bridge was built in the period 1875-82, contemporary with the church and to the design of John Prichard. Cast iron railings are dated 1882.

Exterior

The footbridge is built of coursed rock-faced stone and has a single chamfered segmental arch over the stream. The parapets have battered outer faces, ashlar saddleback copings and terminate in big square piers with pyramidal caps. On the outer side are double wooden gates with reeded muntins, open panels and fleur-de-lys cast iron cresting.

The bridge spans the Baglan brook which runs through a stone-lined channel with rock-faced stone walls and plain iron railings facing the road cast by W. Davies of Briton Ferry and dated 1882, and enters a culvert at the S end below Church Road through a segmental-headed arch. The churchyard wall returns along the SW side, facing Church Road, with cast iron railings on a dwarf wall and intermediate stone piers with saddleback copings. On the N side of the bridge is a revetment wall abutting the stone-lined stream at right angles, which retains the upper part of the churchyard. The boundary wall has a short return at the N end, comprising a concave wall with 2 square dressed stone piers and double cast iron gates.

Reasons for Listing

Listed for group value with the church of St Catharine and the ruins of St Baglan.

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Other nearby listed buildings

I Church of St Catharine
Prominently sited at the junction between St Illtyd's Drive and Church Road. The church is set within a walled churchyard with Baglan brook on the SE side.
II Old church of St Baglan
On the NE side of the churchyard of St Catharine.
II The Vicarage
Approximately 200m NW of St Catharine's church and set back from the road.
II Blaen Baglan
Approximately 0.8km NE of Baglan church and reached by track to the rear of farmyard buildings at right-angled bend on Bwlch Road.
II Sunray
Set back above the N side of Dinas-Baglan Road and reached by short private drive.
II Cwm Clais Mill
To the S of the farmhouse and immediately E of stables. The hillside slopes up behind to the S.
II Milestone at the junction of Old Road and Thorney Road
Immediately S of the junction with Thorney Road.
II Hydro-accumulator tower at Briton Ferry Docks
Standing on the SE flank of the dock at the junction of the dock and outer basin.

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Footbridge and walls of Baglan brook around churchyard of St Catharine

A Grade II Listed Building in Baglan, Neath Port Talbot