Survey Data
Reg No
31306714
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1700 - 1838
Coordinates
96536, 296082
Date Recorded
17/11/2010
Date Updated
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Description
Seven-arch road bridge over channel, extant 1838. Bypassed, 1950. Part creeper- or ivy-covered random rubble stone walls centred on triangular cutwaters to piers with lichen-covered rubble stone soldier course coping to parapets. Series of seven round arches with squared rubble stone voussoirs. Sited spanning Burrishoole Channel with unkempt banks to channel.
Appraisal
A bridge representing an important component of the eighteenth-century civil engineering heritage the rural environs of Newport with the architectural value of the composition suggested not only by the construction in unrefined local fieldstone, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arches making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the Burrishoole Channel in the shadow of Ben Gorm.