Survey Data
Reg No
41303015
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1835 - 1845
Coordinates
266464, 333144
Date Recorded
13/10/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch stone road over railway bridge, built c.1839, carrying Park Road which narrows at crossing, over Ulster Canal and towpath short distance west of nineteenth lock. Parapet walls of roughly squared rubble sandstone with heavy flat capping stones having rounded arrises and punch-finished surfaces. Parapets have large curved splays to both ends of bridge where they are terminated by square piers having heavy pyramidal stone caps to north-east end or continue along roadside to south. Both elevations obscured by ivy and trees growing on embankments either side of disused canal.
Appraisal
This is a fine example of early to mid-nineteenth-century bridge building on the canal built to plans by Directors General of Inland Navigation engineer, John Killaly, although it is not clear who actually designed the bridge. The well executed structure stands as a functioning and gracefully tall element of a now disused canal scheme.