Whitchurch Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1995. Bridge. 1 related planning application.
Whitchurch Bridge
- WRENN ID
- lesser-gateway-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1995
- Type
- Bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SU67NW 472-0/8/10003
The following buildings shall be added:-
WHITCHURCH Whitchurch Bridge
GV II
Road bridge over River Thames. 1902, to the designs of Joseph Morris; built by Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company Ltd. Steel lattice-girder construction, offour spans; the three piers comprising pairs of steel posts, with diagonal bracing between, support the carriageway, which is on transverse beams and steel jack-arches. The parapets are the lattice-girders. Red brick abutments with stone dressings and terminal piers. NOTE: The first bridge was built in timber in 1792, by Act of Parliament, to the designs of John Treacher, surveyor to the Thames Commissioners. It was a toll bridge and its original tollhouse [qv] still exists. The bridge was rebuilt in wood in 1852 and again in 1902, in steel. SOURCES: [1] Colvin, H., A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1660-1840. [2] Company of Proprietors of Whitchurch Bridge, A Short History of Whitchurch Bridge, [08/01/1995].
Listing NGR: SU6361676833
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