PALLADIAN BRIDGE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1023763
Date first listed: 04-Aug-1951
Statutory Address: PALLADIAN BRIDGE
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Location
Statutory Address: PALLADIAN BRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish: Wilton
National Grid Reference: SU 09975 30854
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
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5409 WILTON PARK
Palladian Bridge
SU 03 SE 1/1F 4.8.51.
I
2.
1736-1737. Completed by Roger Morris, as clerk of works. The design inspired
by Palladio's rejected design for the Rialto Bridge in Venice (inter alia),
adapted and supervised by Henry 9th Earl of Pembroke.
Covered bridge with 5 bay Ionic colonnade on balustraded parapet. End
pavilions with pedimented breaks on each face and arched openings. Pulvinated
frieze and modillion cornice. Approached on each side by balustraded stairs
leading to balustraded platforms.
Interior: arches into end pavilions with scroll keys. Enriched cornice and lozenge
pattern ceiling divisons.
Bridge stands on a central and 2 flanking arches in rusticated basement
with 2 further arches to carry stairs. Keystone of one of the arches marked
"J C 1737".
Listing NGR: SU0997530854
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 319348
Legacy System: LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing