The Chain Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 2000. Bridge.
The Chain Bridge
- WRENN ID
- hushed-flint-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 January 2000
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- The Chain Bridge, Kemeys Commander, Usk, Llanarth
- OS grid reference
- SO 346 055
- Coordinates
- 51.74505, -2.94809
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Chain Bridge is a road bridge spanning the River Usk. It features a painted steel single span with bowed lattice-girder arches, from which iron rods descend to support fish-belly pierced iron girders beneath the road deck. The two bowed trusses are linked over the roadway by two lattice girder spans. The bridge is adorned with iron decorative rails that include a moulded plinth, square posts, and rails featuring oval and circle patterns, along with a moulded handrail. At each end, there are rubble stone piers topped with dentiled cornices located just below the parapet level. The parapet consists of panelled sandstone ashlar long piers at each end, which have moulded cornices and caps, and commemorative bronze panels affixed to the western piers. Additionally, there are short lengths of coped squared rubble stone wall at each end.
Local climate
The Chain Bridge receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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