Lostwithiel Bridge
LOSTWITHIEL BRIDGE, NORTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1327324
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Lostwithiel Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- LOSTWITHIEL BRIDGE, NORTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1327324
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Lostwithiel Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOSTWITHIEL BRIDGE, NORTH STREET
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:
- LOSTWITHIEL BRIDGE, NORTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lostwithiel
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 10615 59809
Details
LOSTWITHIEL NORTH STREET, Lostwithiel SX 15 NW 10/118 Lostwithiel Bridge - 18.10.49 GV I
Bridge over the River Fowey. Mid C15, with additional flood arch of C18 and late repairs. Slatestone rubble with chamfered granite copings to parapet walls. The bridge runs east/west across the river, with the C18 works to east. There are 5 pointed arches, with relieving arches; from the south, there is a low 4-centred arch to left, and then the 4 main arches, 2 to left slightly taller, with cutwaters between the refuges on top. The 5 old arches are 13 feet in span; the roadway is 11 feet wide and the parapets were added in 1676; these are splayed back at the west end, and extend overall about 30 feet. To the right, there is a taller round flood arch with buttress to left and smaller round floor arch, rebuilt in the C18. (Sources: Henderson, C. and Coates, H.: Old Cornish Bridges and Streams 1928) Ancient Monument no. 65
Listing NGR: SX1061559809
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 70870
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Henderson, C, Coates, H, Old Cornish Bridges and Streams, (1928)
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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