Turn Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. Bridge.
Turn Bridge
- WRENN ID
- long-footing-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1967
- Type
- Bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SNAITH AND COWICK SNAITH ROAD SE 62 SE East Cowick 3/92 Turn Bridge 14.2.67 GV II Bridge. C18. Tooled sandstone ashlar with some rock-faced ashlar dressings. Triple-arched bridge with abutments splayed out to roadway entrances. 3 bays, central bay breaks forward. Rock-faced ashlar plinth with stepped-in upper course of smooth-faced ashlar. Central keyed rusticated round arch, single side arches within plinth, with rock-faced ashlar voussoirs. Band at original road level, coped parapet between cylindrical piers with square bases, raised band and domed caps. Central tunnel vault has chamfered rustication. Lower sections of bridge largely obscured by soil (side arches only visible to north); roadway raised to either side. Spans the Old River Don, now a small stream. This branch of the Don was improved by Cornelius Vermuyden in the 1620s, and in further improvements of 1726 this section was by-passed by a new cut to the south- east.
Listing NGR: SE6682221460
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