Quakers Yard Railway Viaduct is a Grade II* listed building in the Merthyr Tydfil local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 January 1988. Railway viaduct.
Quakers Yard Railway Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- standing-string-sage
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 4 January 1988
- Type
- Railway viaduct
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Railway viaduct over the Afon Taf. Very tall slightly curving viaduct of 6 arches, the original viaduct upstream and only visible from N. Massive rock-faced squared masonry and highly modelled octagonal piers, the rock-facing tooled at edges, banded 3 times with broad 3-course bands of tooled masonry, and the capitals of 6 stepped courses of rock-faced stone. Remarkable arches deeply splayed at edges, the splays in tooled stone as also the arch soffits. Rockfaced stone in spandrels, big coved string course in tooled stone and rock-faced stone parapets with ashlar copings. Splayed out ends to abutments. Addition of matching scale is simpler, having regular piers, caps in 2 courses, arches with rock-faced stone voussoirs and vermiculated keystones. Coved string course breaks forward over keystones.
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