Belmont Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1988. Viaduct.
Belmont Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- low-dormer-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1988
- Type
- Viaduct
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BELMONT RIVER WEAR NZ 24 SE 6/18 Belmont Viaduct
II
Railway viaduct. 1856 for Auckland branch of North Eastern Railway. Builder Cail of Newcastle. Speech by Cail gives'Mr. Hodgson' as the engineer for the branch. Rock-faced sandstone, some from Rudchester, and brick, with ashlar dressings and cast-iron tie-rods. 130 ft. high; 8 segmental arches, on tapered piers with impost bands, have stepped voussoirs and brick soffits. 3 tallest arches, 2 in river and one on east shore, have apsidal cutwaters. Low wall in same materials in southernmost arch; corresponding arch on north not inspected. 4 tallest arches have elliptical cast iron tie-ends above voussoirs, with star-shaped ribs. Bull-nosed parapet on top cornice continues round paired wide pilasters at each end, with low pyramidal coping. An important landscape feature. Source: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne,Vol.1, No. 18, for 1856; Newcastle 1915 reprint of Gateshead 1858, p.137.
Listing NGR: NZ2976444969
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