New Bridge and Flanking Walls (That Part in Kingston Bagpuize Civil Parish)
NEW BRIDGE AND FLANKING WALLS (THAT PART IN KINGSTON BAGPUIZE CIVIL PARISH), WITNEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1048348
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1966
- List Entry Name:
- New Bridge and Flanking Walls (That Part in Kingston Bagpuize Civil Parish)
- Statutory Address:
- NEW BRIDGE AND FLANKING WALLS (THAT PART IN KINGSTON BAGPUIZE CIVIL PARISH), WITNEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1048348
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- New Bridge and Flanking Walls (That Part in Kingston Bagpuize Civil Parish)
- Statutory Address 1:
- NEW BRIDGE AND FLANKING WALLS (THAT PART IN KINGSTON BAGPUIZE CIVIL PARISH), WITNEY 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:
- NEW BRIDGE AND FLANKING WALLS (THAT PART IN KINGSTON BAGPUIZE CIVIL PARISH), WITNEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Longworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SP4036401387
Details
KINGSTON BAGPUIZE WITH SOUTHMOOR WITNEY ROAD
SP40SW (West side)
2/123 New Bridge and flanking walls
09/02/66 (that part in Kingston
Bagpuize C.P.)
(Formerly listed as New Bridge
(that part in Abingdon Rd.))
GV II*
Bridge. C14 with later repairs. Coursed and dressed limestone. 6 pointed arches
to entries are divided by prominent cutwaters which provide refuges for
travellers above. Groins of 2 central arches have lateral ribs surviving. New
Bridge is the most complete medieval bridge in Oxfordshire, and was the scene of
skirmishes in the Civil War when Parliamentary forces under Waller attempted to
cross the bridge in order to surround Oxford and capture the King. Scheduled as
an Ancient Monument.
(M.R, Toynbee, "Radcot Bridge and Newbridge", Oxonensia Vol.14 (1949), pp.46-53;
Medieval Bridges in Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire Museums Information Sheet No. 17;
Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.161).
Listing NGR: SP4036401387
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249621
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 161
Oxoniensia in Oxoniensia, (1949), 46-53
Oxfordshire Museums Information Sheet in Medieval Bridges in Oxfordshire, ()
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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