Stopham Bridge
STOPHAM BRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1226929
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Stopham Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- STOPHAM BRIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1226929
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Stopham Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- STOPHAM 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:
- STOPHAM BRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Chichester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stopham
- National Park:
- South Downs
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ0296518382
Details
TQ Ol NW STOPHAM
14/146 Stopham Bridge
22.2.55 I
Bridge. This is partly in Horsham District (formerly Chanctonbury Rural District).
Scheduled Ancient Monument. Dallaway's History of West Sussex and all the early
authorities gave the date of the Bridge as 1309. But the correct date is probably
1422-3. One span was destroyed in the Civil War and replaced by a "drawbridge".
This was fenced in 1650. The centre arch was raised in 1821 and has the inscription
J.S.A. July 7 1822. It was badly damaged by army lorries in the late war. It was
repaired after the war but has been damaged again since. It is built of Midhurst stone and Hythe sandstone, and consists of a high segmental arch in the centre and 3 lower round-headed ones on each side. There are blunt cutwaters between the arches. These are continued above the water level on the south side as half-hexagonal buttresses and form recesses of this shape for pedestrians on the bridge. On the north side the cutwaters are continued the whole height of the bridge as cutwaters and form triangular recesses on the Bridge.
Listing NGR: TQ0296518382
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 424459
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dallaway, J, History of the Western Division of Sussex, (1815)
Dallaway, J, History of the Western Division of Sussex, (1815)
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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