Gatehampton Viaduct (MLN14402)

Gatehampton Viaduct is a Grade II listed structure built between 1838 and 1840, with an additional section constructed from 1890 to 1893. It is made of red brick laid in English bond, featuring Bramley Fall gritstone dressings, and some areas have been patched with similar red engineering brick.

The viaduct measures approximately 120 meters long and 18 meters wide and is slightly skewed. The west elevation has four low semi-elliptical arches that spring from water level, each with a square span of 62 feet (19 meters). It features round cutwaters that are boldly moulded in ashlar, a plain shallow stepped string-course, and several tie plates across the elevation. The parapets have stone coping with a rounded edge, interrupted by open steel refuges over each pier, which were added in the 20th century, along with steel railings atop the parapet. The original stone arch voussoirs have been replaced with brick. Each bank has step-outs leading to raked and slightly splayed abutments, which retain bold, stepped roll mouldings that originally extended across the central spans.

The east elevation mirrors the west but includes stone roll moulding around the arch rings and lacks the refuges or railings. The viaduct stands out in the landscape of the River Thames as it flows through the Goring Gap, located in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.