Water Orton Bridge is a Grade II* listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1949. A Tudor Bridge.

Water Orton Bridge

WRENN ID: drifting-buttress-ebony
Grade: II*
Local Planning Authority: Birmingham
Country: England
Date first listed: 18 October 1949
Type: Bridge
Period: Tudor
Source: Historic England listing

Description

Road bridge, built in around 1520 on the site of an earlier bridge, commissioned by Bishop John Vesey of Exeter, with later repairs.

MATERIAL: constructed of ashlar sandstone.

DESCRIPTION: the bridge spans the River Tame and consists of six semi-circular arches, each 5m wide and finished with stone voussoirs. Between the arches are 2m-wide piers with V-shaped cutwaters on either side which span the full height of the bridge, up to parapet level. The coped parapets are plain. There are stone drainage spouts above the two central arches.

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