Lerryn Bridge
LERRYN BRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1329264
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1964
- Statutory Address:
- LERRYN BRIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1329264
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1964
- Statutory Address 1:
- LERRYN BRIDGE
Location
- Statutory Address:
- LERRYN BRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Veep
- National Grid Reference:
- SX1408757153
Details
SX 15 NW ST VEEP LERRYN
6/121 Lerryn Bridge
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21/8/64
GV II*
Bridge over River Lerryn, repaired in 1573. Rubble stone with granite dressings.
Originally comprised 3 arches with third arch to maTch the smaller. Now with 2,
four-centred granite chamfered arches, with larger arch on north. Arches springing
from granite moulded imposts. Large granite blocks form cutwaters on east and west,
which are carried up to form refuges. Roadway of 9½ feet flanked by rubble stone
parapets with granite copings, splayed out over the abutments to north and south.
On west side of bridge a date of 16 has been inscribed on the granite coping of
the refuge.
Bridge mentioned by Leland in 1535. In 1573 Queen Elizabeth issued an order to the
bailiff and constables of the Hundred of the West to levy a rate for the erecting
and re-edifying of a decayed bridge called 'Laryon Bridge' between St Veep and St
Winnow.
Scheduled as Ancient Monument.
C Henderson and H Coates Old Cornish Bridges and Streams 1928 rp 1972. p.80.
Mentioned in Leland's Itinery of John Leland 1535.
Listing NGR: SX1408757153
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 60622
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Henderson, C, Coates, H, Old Cornish Bridges and Streams, (1928), 80
Toulmin Smith, L, The Itinerary of John Leland in or about the Years 1535-1543, (1964)
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