Railway overbridge MVL3/28, Oldham Road is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 2018. Railway overbridge.
Railway overbridge MVL3/28, Oldham Road
- WRENN ID
- gentle-marble-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 2018
- Type
- Railway overbridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railway overbridge for the Huddersfield & Manchester Railway was built in the mid to late 1840s by A S Jee. It is located on the north-east side of Greenfield Station and carries Oldham Road over the two-line track below.
The bridge features segmental arches with stepped voussoirs and slightly taller keystones. The v-jointed voussoirs are made of picked ashlar with tooled margins, and they spring from an ashlar impost band. The bridge abutments have similarly detailed ashlar quoins, while the rest of the abutments and the spandrels are constructed from coursed, rock-faced stone blocks. The soffit of the bridge is made of skew-coursed, rock-faced stone blocks.
The arches are framed by slightly projecting piers of rock-faced stone, with the stone coursing continuing through to the wing walls. These wing walls extend a considerable distance around the inner curves of the road on each side. The bridge, piers, and wing walls are topped with parapets made of coursed, rock-faced stone blocks, featuring square-moulded stone coping and a lower string course of two square-moulded bands. At the west end of the southern parapet, there is a former opening that is now blocked.
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