Causey Arch is a Grade I listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1950. Bridge.
Causey Arch
- WRENN ID
- other-steeple-sienna
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1950
- Type
- Bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NZ 25 NW STANLEY CAUSEY ROAD (West side, off) 3/162 Causey Arch 19/7/50 GV I Wagonway bridge. 1727 by Ralph Wood for Mr. Wortley and Col. Liddell; dated on stone at foot of west abutment signed B. Horne; formerly also dated on sundial signed Ralph Wood. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. 105' long and 80' high, on round arch of 3 courses of voussoirs, the inner recessed; wide buttresses. Probably originally without parapets; C20 railing added. Considered to be the first railway bridge in the world; an example of the early technological skills of the Northumberland and Durham coalfield engineers. Source: J.C. Mann, 'Causey Arch - a Note' in Archaeologia Aeliana 5 XII (1984), 223-6. T.J.M. Lewis Early Wooden Railways, 1970 pp 150, 155, 156. W.W. Tomlinson North Eastern Railway, 1914, second ed. K. Hoole, Newton Abbott, 1967, p.9.
Listing NGR: NZ2012655896
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