New Bridge
NEW BRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1241905
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- New Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- NEW BRIDGE
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- Date:
- 2001-09-05
- Reference:
- IOE01/05505/02
- Rights:
- © Mrs Jean M. King. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1241905
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- New Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- NEW 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:
- NEW BRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Holne
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX7115170883
Details
WIDECOMBE-IN-THE-MOOR
SX 77 SW
6/193
New Bridge
23.8.55
II*
Bridge crossing River Dart. Believed to be C15, repaired in 1645.
Granite rubble, except for arch at the Holne end which is of ashlar; the piers are
of squared and coursed rubble up to springing level of the arches. Bridge consists
of two main arches across the river with a smaller third arch crossing the Widecombe
bank. The arches are rounded, except for the centre one which is very slightly
pointed. They have well-cut voussoirs, the masonry above projecting slightly on
chamfered corbels. On the underside the two main arches spring from chamfered
imposts. Both piers have sharply pointed cutwaters on each side, these forming
refuges on top. The parapets on the Holne side are of ashlar as far as the first
cutwater, sweeping outwards at the end to finish in low, oblong-section piers; the
rounded granite coping extends to one half of the first cutwater. On the Widecombe
side the parapets are of rubble, also sweeping outwards at the end, but here dying
away into the ground; the copings are of chamfered granite blocks.
Source: C Henderson and E Jervoise, Old Devon Bridges, 1938, p.33.
The asset was previously listed twice also at List entry 1147169.
This entry was removed from the List on 7th March 2016.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 8th March 2016.
Listing NGR: SX7115170883
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441166
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Henderson, C, Jervoise, E, Old Devon Bridges, (1938), 33
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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