Survey Data
Reg No
22809082
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1855 - 1860
Coordinates
204803, 98772
Date Recorded
25/06/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Seven-arch cut-stone road bridge over river, built 1858, incorporating fabric of earlier bridge, 1774 - 1779. Broken coursed cut-limestone walls with rock-faced cut-limestone piers having rounded cut-waters, cut-stone pedimented piers to south having round-headed recessed niches with cut-stone plaques over, cut-stone stringcourses, and broken coursed squared tooled limestone parapets having cut-stone coping supporting decorative iron lamp standards. Series of seven round arches with cut-limestone voussoirs, and squared limestone soffits having traces of render over. Sited spanning River Blackwater with grass banks to river.
Appraisal
An elegantly-proportioned and Classically-detailed bridge, sponsored by the Duke of Devonshire (n. d.), and built by C.H. Hunt (n. d.) and E.P. Nagle (n. d.) to designs prepared by Charles Tarrant (1815 - 1877), County Surveyor of Waterford, replacing an earlier bridge on site. The construction in squared and cut-limestone produces a pleasing visual effect, and attests to high quality stone masonry. The civil engineering heritage significance of the composition if indicated by a series of elegant arches, which have retained their original profile.