STOKE CANON BRIDGE AND CAUSEWAY
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1253020
- Date first listed:
- 07-Mar-1990
- Statutory Address:
- STOKE CANON BRIDGE AND CAUSEWAY
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- STOKE CANON BRIDGE AND CAUSEWAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stoke Canon
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 93808 97526
Details
The following building shall be added to the list:
STOKE CANON
SX 99 NW
3/38 Stoke Canon bridge
and causeway
- II*
Road bridge over River Exe and causeway. Probably C15 rebuilding of earlier
medieval bridge; widened and partly rebuilt in early C19. Ashlar and dressed
Tharveton stone. The 3-span bridge over mainstream of river has 3 chamfered
segmental arches and piers with cutwaters on both up and downstream sides, and
a double-chamfered 2-centred flood arch to north. The east side of the flood
arch and both sides of the main stream arches have been widened in circa early
C19 with unchamfered segmental arches with stringcourses above at road level
but incorporating the medieval bridge. A long causeway to south with 2 circa
early C19 flood arches and a mill race arch at its south end, all with
segmental arches without stringcourses above. Low parapets with saddle-back
coping, replaced in concrete in places. In 1326 Bishop Stapledon gave £4 for
the upkeep of the bridge. In C17, on his way to Truro from Exeter, Ogilby
mentioned a bridge with nine arches and a further arch at the north end he
called "Swine Bridge". In 1809 James Green, the County Surveyor, stated that
there were 3 main arches, one flood water arch to north east and 3 to south
west and an arch over the mill water; the carriageway he noted was 10 1/2 feet
wide and "the whole bridge requires considerable repair". Therefore it is
probable that it was repaired and widened soon after 1809.
Source: C Henderson and E Jervoise, Old Devon Bridges, p.56.
Listing NGR: SX9380897526
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86136
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Henderson, C, Jervoise, E , Old Devon Bridges, (1938), 56
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
