Survey Data
Reg No
20903424
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1800 - 1975
Coordinates
172909, 98748
Date Recorded
31/10/2006
Date Updated
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Description
Five-span bridge over River Blackwater, built c. 1820, having limestone piers with cut-stone plinths having U-plan cutwaters and string courses, with half-dome caps to each end of snecked rock-faced walling above. Piers support reinforced concrete superstructure of c. 1970 having metal railed parapets.
Appraisal
This bridge exemplifies two technologies, early nineteenth-century stone and late twentieth-century concrete. The functional concrete flat-beam decking replaced an earlier structure. The re-use of the earlier masonry piers and abutments is an phenomenon and the bridge continues to play an important social role as a strategic crossing point across the Blackwater river.