Stopham Bridge
STOPHAM BRIDGE, PETWORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1354033
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Stopham Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- STOPHAM BRIDGE, PETWORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1354033
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Stopham Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- STOPHAM BRIDGE, PETWORTH ROAD
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:
- STOPHAM BRIDGE, PETWORTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Horsham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pulborough
- National Park:
- South Downs
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ0298318379
Details
PULBOROUGH PETWORTH ROAD
1.
5404
Stopham Birdge
TQ 01 NW 5/784 15.3.55
I
2.
This is partly in former Chanctonbury Rural District and partly in former Petworth
Rural District, as the River Arun, which it spans, is the boundary between them.
There is considerable diversity of opinion about the age of this bridge. T W Horsfield's
History of Sussex says that it was built in 1309. A A Evans in an article in the
Sussex County Magazine in 1936 (Vol 10) gives the date as 1423. E Jervoise's "Ancient
Bridges of the South of England" says that the original bridge was built in 1347
and that the present structure is a replacement dating from the C16. The correct
date is probably 1422-3. One span was destroyed in the Civil War and replaced by
a "drawbridge". This was fenced in 1650. The centre arch was raised in 1822 and
has this date on it. It is built of ironstone and consists of a high segmental
arch in the centre and 2 lower round-headed ones on each side. There are blunt
cutwaters between the arches. These are continued above the water level on the
south side as half hexagonal buttresses and form recesses of this shape for pedestrians
on the Bridge. On the north side the cutwaters are continued the whole height of
the bridge as cutwaters and form triangular recesses on the Bridge. The Bridge
was badly damaged by Army lorries during the war but has been repaired since.
A.M.
Listing NGR: TQ0298318379
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 298597
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Horsfield, TW, A History of Sussex, (1827)
Jervoise, E, The Ancient Bridges of the South of England, (1930)
Sussex County Magazine in Sussex County Magazine, Vol. 10, (1936)
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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