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:: STOPHAM BRIDGE

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Date:: 2004-07-06
Reference:: IOE01/12320/26
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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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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.