Road Bridge Over River Isle

Description

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

KNOWLE ST GILES CP KNOWLE LANE ST31SW Road bridge over River Isle 1/64 - - II

Road bridge over river. Probably C19. but possibly incorporating earlier fragments, Local stone rubble, ashlar dressinqs. Two segmental arches, one dry: stepped parapet with plain copjngs, some chamfered edges, some rounded edged, the parapets 'waisted' on plan, with serpentine corners to all but south-west corner, now straightened: cutwater on south side. Site of bridge probably old, but probably altered when the Chard canal opened in l42, forced the raisin: of this section of road. (VCH Somerset. Vol IV, 1978, Pl57).

Listing NGR: ST3407411266

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1571 IOE Records taken by Michael Perry; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Michael Perry. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project