Bow Bridge
BOW BRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324943
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bow Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- BOW BRIDGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324943
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bow Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOW BRIDGE
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:
- BOW BRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashprington
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 81227 56577
Details
ASHPRINGTON SX85NW BOW 6/37 BOW BRIDGE 11.11.52
GV II
Road bridge over Harbourne River. Probably late C17 or early C18, widened in early to mid Cl9. Local stone rubble and slate. Single span hump-back bridge with dressed slate round arch. The parapets have vertical slate lacing and dressed stone coping. The parapets are swept out over the abutments which extend a long way to the south west under which there is a very small flood arch with a slate lintel. The bridge has a span of about 5 metres. It was originally about 3 metres wide but was widened on the downstream side in the early to mid C19 with a finely dressed stone arch. Leland in the C16 mentioned a bridge between Ashprington and Cornworthy but this bridge probably no earlier than the late C17. Source: Henderson C. and Jervoise E., Old Devon Bridges page 39.
Listing NGR: SX8122756577
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 100946
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Henderson, C, Jervoise, E, Old Devon Bridges, (1938), 39
Toulmin Smith, L, The Itinerary of John Leland in or about the Years 1535-1543, (1964), 218
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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