Abbey Bridge is a Grade II* listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1952. Bridge.
Abbey Bridge
- WRENN ID
- endless-clay-brook
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1952
- Type
- Bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The asset was previously listed twice also under List entry 1160434. This entry was removed from the List on 21 December 2017.
NZ 01 SE 066149 7/40 7.1.52
WESTWICK
Abbey Bridge
II*
Road bridge crossing the River Tees. 1773 for John Sawrey Morritt. Mainly dressed sandstone with some rubble lower courses. Semicircular arch with dressed voussoirs spans 23 metres and is flanked by slightly-projecting giant- piers. Battlemented parapet, above chamfered band, breaks forward over piers to form pedestrian refuges. Paired water-spouts project from base of parapet at north and south ends of bridge. Merlons and embrasures of parapet have chamfered coping. North-west section of parapet terminated by low circular- plan pier with hemispherical cap. Two circular emplacements at southern end of parapet said to be bases of former toll-houses.
Abbey Bridge straddles the parishes of Westwick and Egglestone Abbey.
Listing NGR: NZ 06616 14940
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