King Williams Bridge
- Date:
- 21 Aug 1999
- Location:
- King Williams Bridge, Morwenstow, North Cornwall, Cornwall
- Reference:
- IOE01/00046/28
- Type:
- Photograph (Digital)
This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
SS 21 SW MORWENSTOW
3/71 King Williams Bridge 29.9.61
- II
Road bridge 1836. Dressed stone rubble with stone arches. Single span segmental bridge with parapets with rough stone capping and stone pilasters at ends. Slate built into western parapet, facing road, inscribed with "Toward the erection of this bridge, built by subscription, in the year of human redemption 1836, his most gracious Majesty King William the Fourth gave the sum of Twenty Pounds. Fear God! Honour the King!" Hawker's second wife wrote that the bridge was largely financed by Hawker, and was one of his first works in the parish, C E Byles, The Life and Letters of R S Hawker (1905) p.76, although other evidence suggests that Hawker's contribution was 2, Joan Rendell, Hawker Country (1980) p.56.
Listing NGR: SS2080011678
This is part of the Series: IOE01/1580 IOE Records taken by Hilary Phillips; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Hilary Phillips. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Phillips, Hilary
Rights Holder: Phillips, Hilary
Rubble, Slate, Stone, Georgian Road Bridge, Victorian Transport, Road Transport Site, Bridge
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