Morfydd Street Bridges and Boundary Wall to Davies Street is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 June 1991. Bridge.

Morfydd Street Bridges and Boundary Wall to Davies Street

WRENN ID
still-ledge-amber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Country
Wales
Date first listed
27 June 1991
Type
Bridge
Source
Cadw listing

Description

The bridge is of rubble sandstone, with a primitive copper slag string course, rubble voussoirs, and slag copings. The canal has been filled in to above towpath level. The bridge is complex in structure, consisting of two crossings of the canal together. The north part has the appearance of a typical eighteenth-century canal 'changeover bridge' to carry the towpath from one bank to the other. The deck was approached by two ramps from the towpath, forming a sweeping curve on the north face of the bridge. One ramp joined onto the towpath which had come under the bridge, and the other to the towpath which continued opposite. This arrangement was to allow horses to change banks without the rope being untied. The south part of the bridge has a steeply inclined deck carrying Morfydd Street down the hill, with high parapets on each side, the northerly of which separates it from the towpath crossing. The bridge was extended in the mid nineteenth century with a span in similar materials to the west, carrying Morfydd Street over a railway branch. A boundary wall of similar materials continues southward on the west side of the railway route for the length of Davies Street.

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