PALLADIAN BRIDGE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1023763
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-1951
List Entry Name:: PALLADIAN BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: PALLADIAN BRIDGE

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Date:: 2000-07-18
Reference:: IOE01/00212/14
Rights:: © Mr Peter Read. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1023763
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-1951
List Entry Name:: PALLADIAN BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: PALLADIAN BRIDGE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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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

Details

1. 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

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Legacy System number:: 319348
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.