BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER WEY

BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER WEY, BRIDGE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1377447
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER WEY
Statutory Address:: BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER WEY, BRIDGE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1377447
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER WEY
Statutory Address 1:: BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER WEY, BRIDGE ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER WEY, BRIDGE ROAD

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Elmbridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
County:: Surrey
District:: Runnymede (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 06901 64725

Details

TQ 06 SE BOROUGH OF ELMBRIDGE BRIDGE ROAD Weybridge

374/4/14 Bridge over the River Wey 16.11.84 II Bridge over River Wey. Built in 1865 to design of C H Howell, County Surveyor of Surrey and the founder of the cast sections was the firm of Hennet, Spink and Else, whose name is displayed at the crown of each arch. Impressed in many of the bricks forming the parapet wall is Joseph Hamblet, Oldbury, Birmingham, 1865. Grey brick piers with stone coping and dressings, cast iron arches and balustrading. Comprises three cast iron elliptical arches with openwork panels having spans of 43ft 6inches with a total length of 183 ft. The width between parapets is 24 ft 4 inches. Each span has 6 cast iron ribs. The piers and abutments are brick and stone faced and the balustrades, about 4 feet in height are of cast-iron interlinked hoops on stone plinth. Weybridge was named after a bridge across the river Wey, the first reference to a bridge here being in 675AD in a document relating to Chertsey Abbey. In 1571 the narrow wooden bridge was suitable only for horses. In 1808 a bridge with 13 wooden arches was built for vehicles and the present bridge replaced it. A new road bridge 50 yards downstream was opened in 1945 reducing the traffic and accounts for the unaltered condition of this bridge. Weybridge and the Resolven bridge/aqueduct for the vale of Neath railway are the only structures known to have been associated with either George Hennet or the firm of Hennet, Spink and Else which have survived in original condition.

Listing NGR: TQ0690164725

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Legacy System number:: 286589
Legacy System:: LBS

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