Wansford Bridge (to Cambridgeshire County Boundary)
WANSFORD BRIDGE (TO CAMBRIDGESHIRE COUNTY BOUNDARY), LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1274654
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Wansford Bridge (to Cambridgeshire County Boundary)
- Statutory Address:
- WANSFORD BRIDGE (TO CAMBRIDGESHIRE COUNTY BOUNDARY), LONDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1274654
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Wansford Bridge (to Cambridgeshire County Boundary)
- Statutory Address 1:
- WANSFORD BRIDGE (TO CAMBRIDGESHIRE COUNTY BOUNDARY), LONDON ROAD
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:
- WANSFORD BRIDGE (TO CAMBRIDGESHIRE COUNTY BOUNDARY), LONDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sibson-cum-Stibbington
- National Grid Reference:
- TL0750599111
Details
SIBSON-CUM-STIBBINGTON WANSFORD
TL 0699
LONDON ROAD
9/153 Wansford Bridge (to
25.9.51 Cambridgeshire
County boundary)
GV I
Road bridge, formerly carried the Great North Road over the River Nene.
Twelve arches; seven northernmost dated 'PM 1577' (Peterborough Magistry),
Sir Edward Brudenell of Deene treasurer and surveyor; next three arches
repaired with inscriptions 'HVC NORTH P REPARAT SVTV COMITAT 1674' and 'P HVNT
HVC REPARAT SVTV COMITAT 1672' on east side cutwater; rebuilding by single
span across the main stream and small side arch dated 1795 on oval plaques
above keystones on east and west sides. Freestone limestone blocks with
freestone and ashlar dressings, (stones with mason's marks). Twelve arches;
ten arches to north with coped parapets and moulded string course continuous
around V-shaped cutwaters to piers on west side, C16 piers on east side also
with cutwaters; plain coped parapet to C18 arches with wider roadway. Seven
northern arches semi circular with two plain square orders, three with an
added internal order; three repaired arches semi circular with one plain
order; semi circular southern arch with ashlar dressings and rising keystone
with moulded detail. The stone bridge replaced an earlier wooden bridge with
eight arches damaged by floods in 1571, in 1795 the original thirteen arches
were reduced to ten following ice and flood damage. The Wansford bypass was
constructed in 1929.
R.C.H.M. Huntingdonshire, p234
Y.C.H. Huntingdonshire, p217
Pevsner: Buildings of England, p362
Gilbert, J.L. Stibbington Church and Parish, 1978
Listing NGR: TL0750599111
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 414542
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 234
Page, W, Proby, G, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1936), 217
Gilbert, J L, Stibbington Church and Parish, (1978)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, (1968), 362
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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