Dow Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Rugby local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1990. Bridge.

Dow Bridge

WRENN ID
dim-beam-onyx
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rugby
Country
England
Date first listed
29 March 1990
Type
Bridge
Source
Historic England listing

Description

The following building shall be added:

SP 57 NW 8/59

NEWTON AND BIGGIN WATLING STREET (A5) Dow Bridge

II

Road bridge (now disused) carrying Watling Street over the River Avon. An 1838 partial rebuild of an earlier bridge (probably C18). Tooled coursed ashlar. Chamfered coping. 6 elliptically headed arches; the arch to the NW has a keystone carrying the date 'W.P. 1838'. The 2 NW arches almost completely rebuilt in 1838 (perhaps retaining the earlier cutwater), but considerable sections of an earlier bridge survive (built of rougher coursed masonry), especially at the SE end. The road level has been built up to the level of the parapet coping. A 1722 engraving of an earlier bridge is to be found in Warwickshire Record Office; it is possible that the present structure incorporates sections of the bridge illustrated.

Listing NGR: SP5435077923

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