Railway Bridge, Over Tributary Of River Yeo

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

ST51SE BARWICK CP STOFORD

Railway bridge, over tributary of 5/33 River Yeo - GV II

Railway bridge over river. Circa 1860. Boasted square stone (possibly Chilmark) with interior face of arch in red brickwork. Semi- circular arch with stepped extrados and key stone dressed proud; impost course between battered and raked pilasters; elliptical raked abutments; moulded quasi-parapet; bridge rises only half the height of railway embankment. River channel set square to railway. Carefully detailed and well considered companion bridge to the nearby rail/road bridge (qv), for the London and South Western Railway, which opened in 1860.

Listing NGR: ST5687313951

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0882 IOE Records taken by Brian Haigh; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Brian Haigh. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project