Five Arch Bridge
FIVE ARCH BRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1332826
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Five Arch Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- FIVE ARCH BRIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1332826
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Five Arch Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- FIVE ARCH 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:
- FIVE ARCH BRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wotton Underwood
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 67796 15929
Details
SP 61 NE WOTTON UNDERWOOD WOTTON HOUSE
3/173 Five Arch Bridge
-
II
Dam with overflow and ornamental bridge. Probaby built circa 1758-60,
to a design by Sanderson Miller, who is known to have designed a bridge
for George Grenville in 1758. The structure is modelled on William Kent’s Shell Bridge at Stowe.
Coursed rubble and fossiled stone with ashlar dressings.
Piers have ashlar plinths, quoins and pedimented
copings. Ashlar band along top of bridge, no parapet. 5 segmental
arches, the central arch slightly projecting with pediment to west
side, the east side damaged. This arch has overflow channel to lower
lake. Bridge curves outwards at each end. Below bridge on east side dam
has matching stone facing with blind arches flanking central overflow arch.
The historic designed landscape surrounding an early-C18 country house, with a contemporary layout, probably by George London and Henry Wise, developed into an extensive mid-C18 park for George Grenville by Lancelot Brown; William Pitt, later first Earl of Chatham, is credited with significant input with regard to the design.
Listing NGR: SP6779615929
The List entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 10 August 2016 as part of the tercentenary celebrations of Lancelot Capability Brown's birth.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 42554
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire, (1994), 764-7
Phipps, J L, Wotton Underwood: A survey of the landscape, (1999)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 4 Buckinghamshire,
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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