Great North Road Bridge Carrying North Bound Carriageway Over The River Nene

TL 07 99, 45/713

WANSFORD, SIBSON-CUM-STIBBINGTON, GREAT NORTH ROAD, Great North Road Bridge carrying north-bound carriageway over The River Nene

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Road bridge over River Nene. 1925-28 by Owen Williams and Maxwell Ayrton for Ministry of Transport. Mass concrete constructions. Segmental arch to 109ft wide central span and two flanking flood arches each with 50ft span segmental arches carrying flat road deck. Between the main and flood arches the piers each have two pairs of cutwaters on either side rising from large splays at the bases to the refuges in the parapet; between the cutwaters the piers are pierced by round-headed arches. A significant feature of the design are the arches that pierce the spandrels, two in each of the main arch spandrels and one for the flood arch spandrels, which have wide vertical expansion joints rising from the crowns of the arches and up through the parapets. There are four similar expansion joints above the extrados of the main arch. The point where the expansion joint rises from the arch is emphasised by a chamfered recess instead of a keystone. The parapet projects on corbels which rise through it as pyramidal lozenge shapes. Inscriptions formed by shuttering include: the date in Roman numerals over the main arch, and in the main arch spandrels "County of Huntingdon" on the south side and "County of the Soke of Peterborough" on the north side.

This asset was previously listed twice. The duplicate record (List entry number 1274340) was removed from the List on 6 November 2018. The remaining record (List entry number 1331276) falls within the parishes of both Wansford and Sibson-cum-Stibbington.