Nooning Lane Bridge (SPC6 12)

MATERIALS: coursed and squared quarry-faced sandstone walling with artificial stone, parapet courses, ashlar dressings and a red brick soffit.

EXTERIOR: the bridge carries Nooning Lane over the railway tracks and has identical faces. It consists of a single semi-elliptical arch with rusticated V-channelled picked voussoirs which have tooled margins. The voussoirs terminate as quoins on the soffit of the arch which is of skew-set red brick. This is supported by several courses of stone with a band course which has diagonally set springers of picked stone with tooled margins. The wing walls project slightly to frame the arch, with quoins of picked stone with tooled margins, and have a concave rake from approximately half-way down the arch. Immediately above the arch, and blunting the uppermost voussoirs, there is a tooled string course with a sloping upper edge. The parapet comprises one course of picked ashlar with tooled margins, and two courses of late-C20, artificial stone, surmounted by the original square-moulded, tooled gritstone coping. The string course and coping extend across the wing walls which curve gently to terminate in projecting rectangular piers.