Bridge Over River Beane At Ngr Tl 3138 1403, Goldings Park

HERTFORD

TL3114SW NORTH ROAD, Goldings 817-1/5/302 Bridge over River Beane at NGR TL 3138 1403, Goldings Park

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Bridge. 1869. One of a series built by Robert Smith, owner of Goldings. Red and yellow brick, flint and stone dressings. Elliptical arch with 3 headers of reds, alternating with stone voussoirs, stone impost bands and stone keyblock with incised circle with outer arch of yellow headers. Flint panels in spandrels, battered piers to abutments which have flint panels and red brick quoins, stone band; cornice of chamfered cream header bricks set alternatively upright and inverted. Red brick corbel band and stone upper band, red brick blocking course to parapet which has panelled red brick piers with moulded stone caps with low pyramidal tops. Stack bonded brick balusters and stone copings. HISTORICAL NOTE: Robert Smith inherited the Goldings estate in 1861 and demolished the old mansion, diverting and reconstructing the nearby Watton Turnpike, and building a series of bridges in 1869 to carry the road, and the drive to Goldings over the 'Goldings Canal' and mill race of the River Beane. (Hertfordshire Countryside: Campbell D: Goldings: a curious Hertfordshire Mansion: Letchworth: 1946-1973: 34-5, 38; Dixon R: Victorian Architecture: London: 1978-: 50-2, 257; Girouard M: The Victorian Country House: New Haven and London: 1979-: 84-5, 438).

Listing NGR: TL3138314021