Pilton Bridge and Causeway South of Pilton Quay Including Gates and Piers to Pilton Park
PILTON BRIDGE AND CAUSEWAY SOUTH OF PILTON QUAY INCLUDING GATES AND PIERS TO PILTON PARK, PILTON CAUSEWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385258
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Pilton Bridge and Causeway South of Pilton Quay Including Gates and Piers to Pilton Park
- Statutory Address:
- PILTON BRIDGE AND CAUSEWAY SOUTH OF PILTON QUAY INCLUDING GATES AND PIERS TO PILTON PARK, PILTON CAUSEWAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385258
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Pilton Bridge and Causeway South of Pilton Quay Including Gates and Piers to Pilton Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- PILTON BRIDGE AND CAUSEWAY SOUTH OF PILTON QUAY INCLUDING GATES AND PIERS TO PILTON PARK, PILTON CAUSEWAY
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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:
- PILTON BRIDGE AND CAUSEWAY SOUTH OF PILTON QUAY INCLUDING GATES AND PIERS TO PILTON PARK, PILTON CAUSEWAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnstaple
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 55746 33736
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5533 PILTON CAUSEWAY, Pilton
684-1/6/309 Pilton Bridge and causeway S of
31/08/88 Pilton Quay, incl gates & piers to
Pilton Park
(Formerly Listed as:
PILTON BRIDGE AND CAUSEWAY, Pilton
Whole length of bridge & causeway
from Pilton Quay ... to bridge over
mill leat)
II
Bridge and causeway crossing and skirting the River Yeo. 1451,
bridge rebuilt 1678; both widened by 3m in 1821.
Bridge is of rubble with coping of chamfered granite blocks.
It has 2 round arches springing from a central pier with low
cutwater on W side (E side is buried under late C20
roadworks). Above the cutwater is a shallow buttress rising to
a plain string course just above the voussoirs of the arches.
Similar buttress at S end. Parapet on W side only. The
underside of the bridge (seen from a distance) seems to show
evidence of 2 builds.
Parapet, complete with chamfered granite coping, continues
right down the western side of the causeway, interrupted by 4
gates. The most northerly of these is a late C20 insertion,
but the middle 2 (entering Pilton Park) are mid or late C19
with square stone ashlar piers and moulded tops; the low
pyramidal caps appear to have been replaced in concrete.
Original cast-iron gates survive, with spearheads and circular
panels containing flowers; at the bottom a pair of
intersecting diagonal braces with a boss bearing an illegible
inscription. Southern gate, also leading into the park, has
square piers of coursed stone rubble with pyramidal caps
encased in cement.
HISTORICAL NOTE: in 1451 Bishop Lacey granted an indulgence to
penitents contributing to the bridge and causeway between
Pilton and Barnstaple. In 1897, during work on the Lynton and
Barnstaple railway, a 2-foot square stone was found,
inscribed: `This causeway and the bridge were widened ten feet
by public subscription in the year 1821 Shaddick and Knill,
builders'.
Bridge over mill leat to south not included.
(Gribble JP: Memorials of Barnstaple: 1830-: 567-8, 618;
Gardiner WF: Barnstaple, 1837-1897: 1897-: 229; Chanter JR &
Wainwright T: Barnstaple Records: 1900-: 248).
Listing NGR: SS5574633736
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485720
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gribble, JP, Memorials of Barnstaple, (1830), 567-8, 618
Gardiner, W F, Barnstaple 1837-1897, (1897), 229
Other
Chanter and Wainwright, Barnstaple Records, (1900)
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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