MERCURY BRIDGE

MERCURY BRIDGE, A6136

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1317112
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1969
List Entry Name:: MERCURY BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: MERCURY BRIDGE, A6136

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Date:: 2002-02-14
Reference:: IOE01/06281/30
Rights:: © Mr Ray Wallace Thompson. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1317112
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1969
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: MERCURY BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: MERCURY BRIDGE, A6136

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MERCURY BRIDGE, A6136

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: St. Martin's
National Grid Reference:: NZ 17572 00976

Details

ST MARTINS A 6136 NZ 10 SE

4/111 Mercury Bridge (formerly listed as 4.2.69 Station Bridge (that half in Richmond Rural District))

GV II

Marked on Ordnance Survey Map as Station Bridge. Bridge. c1846. By G T Andrews for George Hudson's Great North of England Railway. Rock-faced sandstone ashlar. Four segmental-pointed double-chamfered arches, under continuous label with shields over centre of piers. Small cutwaters to piers. Lombard frieze to parapet, supporting triangular coping with rolled ridge, and hollow-chamfered outer slope and double-coursed inner slope. Over each pier, corbelled bases formerly to pinnacles carrying gas-lamps, pinnacles all demolished except for part of southernmost one on upstream parapet. Octagonal terminals to parapets, with corniced moulded conical caps. Originally built to give vehicular access to the Railway Station from the town of Richmond on the other side of the River Swale, but during World War I the road was extended by Italian prisoners of war to give access to Catterick Camp, then under construction. Biddle G & Nock O S, The Railway Heritage of Britain (1983), p 38. Partly in Richmond Parish. One of an important surviving group of railway buildings.

Listing NGR: NZ1757200976

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Legacy System number:: 322177
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Biddle, , Nock, , The Railway Heritage of Britain, (1983), 38

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.