Bridge Over River Tone at NGR St 1378 2234
BRIDGE OVER RIVER TONE AT NGR ST 1378 2234
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060317
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Over River Tone at NGR St 1378 2234
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE OVER RIVER TONE AT NGR ST 1378 2234
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060317
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Over River Tone at NGR St 1378 2234
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE OVER RIVER TONE AT NGR ST 1378 2234
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:
- BRIDGE OVER RIVER TONE AT NGR ST 1378 2234
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Nynehead
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 13780 22340
Details
NYNEHEAD CP NYNEHEAD VILLAGE ST12SW NYNEHEAD VILLAGE 4/64 Bridge over River Tone at NGR ST 1378 2234 II Former road bridge over River Tone on drive to Nynehead Court (qv), now disused. Dated 1817. By Thomas Lee for W A Sandford. Brick faced with grey Knapp sandstone, ashlar coursed with V joints giving strong vertical emphasis,voussoirs, strongly moulded string course, parapet of large dressed blocks rising from string course with chamfered tops. Plan: 3 arch span, shallow elliptical arches, cutwaters both sides but mostly submerged in mud, square piers abutting, topped with small square plinths that probably carried sole sculptural decoration when erected. Soffit of central arch with inserted York stone slab inscribed "W A Sandford 1817", soffit of south arch plain, north not visible from bank, North-west pier damaged, north-east pier obscured by ivy at time of survey (February 1985), string course damaged in places and obscured by ivy, fissure in south-west abutment. A fine design that was exhibited at the Royal Acedemy in 1818. Colvin, Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, l978).
Listing NGR: ST1378022340
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 271006
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978)
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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