The Chain Bridge

Road bridge over the River Usk. Painted steel single span bridge with bowed lattice-girder arches from which iron rods descend to carry fish-belly pierced iron girders under road deck. The two bowed trusses are connected over the roadway by 2 lattice girder spans. Iron decorative rails with moulded plinth, square posts, oval and circle pattern rails, and moulded handrail. End rubble stone piers with dentiled cornices under parapet level. Parapet has panelled sandstone ashlar long piers each end with moulded cornices and caps, commemorative bronze panels fixed to W piers. Short lengths of coped squared rubble stone wall each end.