Survey Data
Reg No
22312069
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Artistic, Technical
Original Use
Foot bridge
In Use As
Foot bridge
Date
1845 - 1850
Coordinates
212097, 158367
Date Recorded
26/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding railway footbridge, erected 1848, comprising cast-iron depressed-arch with latticed parapets, supported on cast-iron columns with ornate foliate capitals, having cast-iron staircases with latticed sides and decorative stair risers, cast-iron balusters and ball-topped newel posts. Later steel girders support west staircase. Moulded concrete telephone box under eastern staircase.
Appraisal
This footbridge is of high artistic value, with decorative foliate motifs to the balustrades and foliate capitals to the cast-iron capitals. It forms part of an interesting group of railway buildings with the station building, the waiting room, workers' houses and the road bridge.