Bridge Approximately 300 Metres North Of Downton Castle

This asset was previously listed twice also at List Entry 1081759. That entry was removed from the List on 13 December 2023.

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 December 2023 to add text from the de-listed duplicate entry, to convert yards to metres and to reformat text to current standards.

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LEINTWARDINE CP

Bridge approximately 300 metres north of Downton Castle

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Bridge over Stone Brook. Mid-C19. Dressed coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Central tall narrow archway with two-centred head of two chamfered orders. The archway is flanked by bartizan-style angled projections with embattled parapets which are corbelled out from the wall surface just beneath the level of the arched head and are continued to the main parapet coping. There are smaller similarly arched flood outlets and also several irregularly sized and spaced slit openings in the bridge walls. The plain parapet has a string course at its base, a ridged coping and is splayed at the north end. The south ends terminate in octagonal piers with pyramidal capping. North end of eastern parapet curves in broad north-easterly sweep. The west parapet curves into the adjacent Lodge (qv). A short wall about two metres long adjoins the outer side of both piers at right angles to the bridge.

The bridge was built as part of the major alterations of Downton Castle (qv) carried out between 1860 and 1870 when a new entrance was built on the north-west side of the building. The estate was originally approached from the south with the driveway crossing the River Teme at Castle Bridge (qv). Downton Castle is in Downton CP.