The Iron Bridge at Culford School
THE IRON BRIDGE AT CULFORD SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1269105
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Iron Bridge at Culford School
- Statutory Address:
- THE IRON BRIDGE AT CULFORD SCHOOL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1269105
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Iron Bridge at Culford School
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE IRON BRIDGE AT CULFORD SCHOOL
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:
- THE IRON BRIDGE AT CULFORD SCHOOL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Culford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 82799 70401
Details
CULFORD
TL 87 SW CULFORD PARK
181- /1/10004 The Iron Bridge at
Culford School
GV I
Park bridge. c.1803 by Samuel Wyatt for 2nd Marquis Cornwallis. Cast-iron single span with granite abutments and cast-iron side plates. Composition stone balustrade and marble urns. Design closely based on a bridge patented by Wyatt in 1800. Springing from channelled granite abutments five tubular cast-iron sections form the span. These are repeated six times under the span and kept rigid by transverse plates and ribs at the top, the plates having open ovals at the centres. Solid plates continue above the outer ribs forming the outside to the roadway. Above this is the balustrade with solid piers at intervals and square-sectioned moulded balusters. Carved marble urns at the ends. This bridge is of exceptional interest as one of the earliest bridges with an unmodified cast-iron structure to survive, the earliest known example with hollow ribs, and one close to a patented design by an important architect. (Repertory of Arts and Manufactures: Vol.14 (1801), p145-9).
Listing NGR: TL8279970401
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461116
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Repertory of Arts and Manufactures in Repertory of Arts and Manufactures, Vol. 14, (1801), 145-149
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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