Railway overbridge MVL3/82, Church Street

Road bridge over the Huddersfield & Manchester Railway line, built between 1845 and 1849 under the engineer Alfred Stanistreet Jee.

MATERIALS: coursed and squared quarry-faced gritstone with ashlar dressings.

DESCRIPTION: Church Street Bridge is situated near the junction of Church Street with Branch Street in the Paddock area of Huddersfield. It carries Church Street (formerly Paddock Road) over a cutting for the Huddersfield & Manchester Railway line and is a skewed flying arch; the arch springing directly from the rock of the cutting and crossing the railway at an angle or skew. The bridge is similarly detailed on both sides and is constructed of coursed local gritstone with a segmental arched span incorporating rusticated voussoirs that springs from an ashlar impost band. Above the arch is a projecting carriageway band and a parapet of coursed quarry-faced stone with rounded and tooled ashlar coping stones. The parapet terminates in projecting piers at each end. There are steel handrails running along the top of the coping.