WILTON BRIDGE AND SUNDIAL

WILTON BRIDGE AND SUNDIAL, WILTON ROAD, B4260

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1349266
Date first listed:: 22-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: WILTON BRIDGE AND SUNDIAL
Statutory Address:: WILTON BRIDGE AND SUNDIAL, WILTON ROAD, B4260

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1349266
Date first listed:: 22-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: WILTON BRIDGE AND SUNDIAL
Statutory Address 1:: WILTON BRIDGE AND SUNDIAL, WILTON ROAD, B4260

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: WILTON BRIDGE AND SUNDIAL, WILTON ROAD, B4260

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

District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ross-on-Wye
National Grid Reference:: SO5899424216

Details

The asset was previously listed twice also under the parish of Bridstow at List entry 1288736. This entry was removed from the List on 23 September 2024.

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 September 2024 to correct typos, reformatted to current standards and add text about the sundial from the de-listed duplicate entry. The GIS triangle depiction was moved slightly from SO5899724214 to SO5899424216. Thus placing it on the parish boundary between Ross-on-Wye and Bridstow which passes through the building. The grid reference was removed from the Details text.

1560

SO 52 SE 2/87

Wilton Bridge

22.10.52.

I

Bridge of sandstone ashlar and concrete reinforcement. In 1597 an Act was passed authorising its construction. It was completed within the next two years. Altered 1914. Six semi-circular arches each with three ribs. Massive cutwaters on each side carried up and splayed back from the outer angle at parapet level forming semi-hexagonal refuges. At the point where the splay dies out is a moulded string which is mitred and carried up to the angle against the spandrels of the arches and then mitred and carried across to form a label above the arches. The voussoirs of the arches are chamfered and joggled and have various masons' marks. On upstream side the bridge has been widened but now the parapet has gone and been replaced by a steel crash-barrier. South-east approach to bridge has been rebuilt in ashlar with two flights of stone steps to the river bank.

Restored sundial. Early C18. Sandstone ashlar and limestone. Diagonally set in refuge on south side. Square pedestal with moulded and fielded side panels supports bulbous fluted baluster-shaped shaft with moulded cornice above which is a square limestone pillar, bearing a gnomon to each face, topped by a ball-finial. Eroded inscription beneath north gnomon reported by RCHM as: ESTEEM THEY PRECIOUS TIME / WHICH PASS SO SWIFT AWAY/ PREPARE THEE FOR ETERNITY / AND DO NOT MAKE DELAY. RCHM plan has sundial positioned wrongly on north side of the bridge.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 153462
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire II East, (1932)
Other
RCHM Vol 1, p 31-2.

Legal

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