Stopham Bridge is a Grade I listed building in the local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1955. A Probably 1422-1423 Bridge.
Stopham Bridge
- WRENN ID
- veiled-mullion-hemlock
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1955
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Stopham Bridge, Chichester
- OS grid reference
- TQ 029 183
- Coordinates
- 50.95567, -0.53538
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stopham Bridge is a historic bridge located partly in Horsham District. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. While early records, including Dallaway's History of West Sussex, suggest the bridge was built in 1309, it is more accurately dated to 1422-3. During the Civil War, one span was destroyed and replaced by a drawbridge, which was fenced in 1650. The center arch was raised in 1821, with the inscription "J.S.A. July 7 1822." The bridge suffered damage from army lorries during the late war and was repaired afterward, though it has sustained further damage since then.
Constructed from Midhurst stone and Hythe sandstone, the bridge features a high segmental arch in the center, flanked by three lower round-headed arches on each side. Blunt cutwaters are positioned between the arches, extending above the water level on the south side as half-hexagonal buttresses, creating pedestrian recesses. On the north side, the cutwaters rise to the full height of the bridge, forming triangular recesses.
Local climate
Stopham Bridge receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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