Gunnislake Bridge / New Bridge

Date:
23 Mar 2002
Location:
Gunnislake Bridge, Gulworthy, West Devon, Devon
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New Bridge, Gulworthy, West Devon, Devon
Reference:
IOE01/06515/10
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

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

SX47SW GULWORTHY

New Bridge (also known as 5/145 Gunnislake Bridge) Fomerly listed as: TAVISTOCK HAMLETS New Bridge)

GV I

Bridge over the Piver Tamar. Circa 1520, with rebuilding to parapet walls. Granite ashlar with parapet walls in rubble with granite coping. Total length 182 feet. Each side has 5 triangular refuges, 6 slightly pointed arches, imposts at the springing of the arches, and recessed arch rings with chamfered outer order; ashlar carried up to string course and then built out in rubble above. Parapet walls splayed back at each end.

New Bridge is also listed under Calstock parish in Cornwall.

(Cornwall Ancient Monument No. 1099) Devon Ancient Monument no. 125 (Sources: Henderson, C. and Coates, H: Old Cornish Bridges and Streams 1928).



Listing NGR: SX4332172209

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0766 IOE Records taken by Stephen C Fryer; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Stephen C. Fryer. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project

People & Organisations

Photographer: Fryer, Stephen C.

Rights Holder: Fryer, Stephen C.

Keywords

Rubble, Ashlar, Granite, Medieval Bridge, Tudor Monument (By Form), Elizabethan Transport