Lamb Bridge
LAMB BRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1120952
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lamb Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- LAMB BRIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1120952
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lamb Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAMB BRIDGE
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:
- LAMB BRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bournmoor
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- North Lodge
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 29439 52429
Details
BOURNMOOR LAMBTON PARK NZ 25 SE 4/23 Lamb Bridge II*
Bridge, 1819 by Ignatius Bonomi for John Lambton, later 1st Earl of Durham. Slightly hump-backed, single-track bridge over the River Wear. Ashlar sandstone; dressed stone end walls with cast-iron railings.
Both faces identical. Slightly-pointed, 25-metre span arch with roll-moulded arch band. Parapet and band at road level are raked down in a series of steps to either side of apex. Parapet has chamfered coping and splayed ends. Rectangular-plan end abutments rise to form pedestals flanking roadway; each pedestal has cornice and a carved stone lamb. Low, splayed end walls with flat coping and railings. Railings have alternating arcaded and wavy bars, a double top rail with scrollwork infill and similar square-plan end posts.
This bridge straddles the parishes of Bournmoor and North Lodge.
(E. Jervoise, The Ancient Bridgesof the North of England, 1973).
Listing NGR: NZ2943952429
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109369
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jervoise, E, The Ancient Bridges in the North of England, (1931)
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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