Catterick Bridge
CATTERICK BRIDGE, A6136
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1317092
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Catterick Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- CATTERICK BRIDGE, A6136
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1317092
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Catterick Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- CATTERICK BRIDGE, A6136
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:
- CATTERICK BRIDGE, A6136
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brompton-on-Swale
- National Grid Reference:
- SE2272899374
Details
SE 29 NW
8/2
4/2/69
BROMPTON-ON-SWALE
A 6136
Catterick Bridge
(Formerly listed in the Parish of Brough)
GV
II*
Bridge. 1422, probably rebuilt 1565-90, much repaired C17, widened 1792.
Older bridge for William de Burgh of Brough Hall, widening by John Carr of
York. Sandstone ashlar. 4 arches separated by triangular cutwaters with
hollow-chamfered tops sweeping up to canted pedestrian retreats. Band.
Parapets with triangular coping terminating in circular bollards, the
downstream parapet curving outwards in plan. Older bridge on upstream side:
central 2 arches of 2 slightly-pointed chamfered orders, outer arches
semicircular and faced with C18 stonework. Undersides of earlier arches
bear masons' marks. The Carr bridge on downstream side: 3 semicircular
arches and 1 segmental arch, with torus archivolts. Small barrel-vaulted
chamber in spandrel adjacent to southernmost arch on downstream side. The
contract for building the bridge survives in the County Record Office.
There was a chantry chapel, dedicated to St Anne, founded in 1505, on the
south-east side of the medieval bridge. Part of downstream parapet
dismantled at time of resurvey. Scheduled as an Ancient Monument. Partly
in the parish of Brough with St Giles. E Jervoise, Ancient Bridges of The
North of England, (1931), p 87; York Georgian Society, The Works in.
Architecture of John Carr (1973), p 6; VCH i, p 301.
Listing NGR: SE2272899374
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 322065
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jervoise, E, The Ancient Bridges in the North of England, (1931), 87
The Works in Architecture of John Carr, (1973), 6
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 301
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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