Elstead Bridge
ELSTEAD BRIDGE, FARNHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1044453
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Elstead Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- ELSTEAD BRIDGE, FARNHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1044453
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Elstead Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- ELSTEAD BRIDGE, FARNHAM ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ELSTEAD BRIDGE, FARNHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Waverley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elstead
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 90541 43804
Details
SU 94SW ELSTEAD C.P. FARNHAM ROAD
5/3 Elstead Bridge 9/3/60 I
Bridge. C13, possibly by the Monks of Waverley Abbey. Sandstone rubble slabs with blocks of darker ironstone, wooden, C20 parapet railings. Originally 7 arches, now five with "Keeled", i.e. pointed, cutwaters upstream and rounded cutwaters over "keeled" plinths downstream. One of an early series of bridges over the River Wey between Farnham and Guildford and of great historical importance. The bridge is a scheduled Ancient Monument. Surrey Antiquity No. 149.
S.A.S. Research Volume No. I (1974) pp. 75 - 83 "The River Wey between Farnham and Guildford" By Derek F. Renn, F.S.A. PEVSNER: Buildings of England, Surrey (1971) pp. 212 Mamy and Bray "History and Antiquities of Surrey Vol III pp 137 & xxxvi.
Listing NGR: SU9054143804
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 291513
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 212
Research Volume of the Surrey Archaeological Society in Research Volume of the Surrey Archaeological Society, (1974)
Surrey Archaeological Society Collections in Surrey Archaeological Society Collections, Vol. 1, (1974), 75-83
Marmy, , Bray, , History and Antiquities of Surrey in History and Antiquities of Surrey, Vol. 3, (), 137
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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