Teme Bridge
Teme Bridge, Teme Street, Tenbury, Worcestershire
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383431
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Teme Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- Teme Bridge, Teme Street, Tenbury, Worcestershire
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383431
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-2000
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Dec-2017
- List Entry Name:
- Teme Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- Teme Bridge, Teme Street, Tenbury, Worcestershire
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:
- Teme Bridge, Teme Street, Tenbury, Worcestershire
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Malvern Hills (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tenbury
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Burford
- National Grid Reference:
- SO5955468595
Summary
A road bridge over the River Teme with six arches. The core is probably C14. The south side was rebuilt in the C18 and the north side was widened by Telford in 1815. The bridge was widened again in 1868 and finally in 1908 by JH Garrett.
Reasons for Designation
Teme Bridge, a road bridge of six arches with portions from the C14, C18, C19 and early C20, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Historic interest: it is a significant example of a medieval bridge which illustrates medieval bridge building techniques;
* Degree of survival: although it has been repaired since it was built its continued use and adaptation in the C18, C19 and C20 is an on-going testament to medieval road building in England.
History
The bridge probably has a C14 stone core which is believed to have replaced an earlier timber structure. It appears not to have been damaged during the Civil War. The south side was rebuilt around 1770, following flood damage, which is believed to have destroyed the three southern arches. The bridge was widened by Telford in 1815 and he was probably responsible for altering the direction of the southern spans which present an angle to the current and mean that the bridge bends in the middle. It was widened again in 1868 and finally in 1908 by the Worcestershire County Surveyor, JH Garrett. The bridge is traditionally considered to be a Hundred Bridge which dwellers in the area were responsible for re-building or breaking down to stop Welsh raids.
Details
A road bridge over the River Teme with six arches. The core is probably C14. The south side was rebuilt in the C18 and the north side was widened by Telford in 1815. The bridge was widened again in 1868 and finally in 1908 by JH Garrett.
MATERIALS & PLAN: Ashlar with reinforced concrete widening and iron balustrade. The bridge has six spans and is angled towards the current at its middle.
To the north are three, C14 ashlar, ribbed, round arches with integral cutwaters to both sides (with three plain ashlar arches on south side which have integral cutwaters on the west side and a concrete pier and cutwater on the east side). There are reinforced concrete segmental-arched lining on both sides of the arches springing from the cutwaters, with that on the east side extended to form the road widening. There is a corbelled concrete balustrade beam on both sides. Early C20 cast-iron railings terminate at ashlar piers with pyramid caps with the north-east pier retaining a fluted cast-iron lamp standard. There is a cast-iron shield set on the parapet railing with an inscription reading THIS BRIDGE WAS REBUILT AND WIDENED BY COUNTY COUNCILS OF WORCESTERSHIRE AND SHROPSHIRE 1908.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483849
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Brooks, A, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (2007), 631
Blackwall, A, Historic Bridges of Shropshire, (1985), 10
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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