Town Bridge
TOWN BRIDGE, TOWN BRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187392
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Town Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN BRIDGE, TOWN BRIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187392
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Town Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN BRIDGE, TOWN BRIDGE
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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:
- TOWN BRIDGE, TOWN BRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bridgwater
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 30041 37103
Details
BRIDGWATER
ST3037 TOWN BRIDGE 736-1/6/193 Town Bridge 16/12/74
GV II
Town bridge. Dated 1883. By R C Else and G B Laffan and made by George Moss of Liverpool. Rough ashlar limestone abutments, Ham Hill stone piers, steel girders with cast-iron railings, lamps and plaques. 7 segmental arches with diagonal trellised spandrels support the single span road bridge with tarmac suface flanked by pavements. To the centre of the outside arches plaques with the town crest and the inscription "Erected 1883. W T Holland, Mayor." The rectangular-section piers to each corner have recessed panels and moulded cornices to shallow-pitched tops. 12 sections of railings between the piers and 2 sections curving away to the sides are articulated by cast-iron columns with a spiral moulding. The railings are joined in pairs by semicircular arches, reversed to the base, which are linked to the handrail and plinth, each pair is linked at impost level, and by a central horizontal rail with spikes above and below, to the centre of each pair. The 4 columns at the extremities are octagonal with recessed panels and pyramidal tops. On the piers are C20 restored cast-iron lamps, and the central columns of the railings have bases to former lamps. The original stone bridge was replaced by one cast in Coalbrookdale in 1797, which was replaced by the present structure. (VCH: Somerset: London: 1992-: 195).
Listing NGR: ST3004137103
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 374010
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dunning, R W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1992), 195
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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