River Chew Bridge (MNL111354)

MATERIALS: pennant stone throughout, squared and coursed on the faces and soffit, and ashlar for voussoirs, quoins, stringcourse and copings finished with raised tooling and a plain margin

DESCRIPTION: both elevations identical. 30ft (9m) semi-circular arch with chamfered voussoirs continuing down the abutments to ground (31ft from water level to crown of soffit). Flanked by broad single stage buttresses finished with offsets. Beyond the buttresses the elevations continue unbroken and parallel to the trackbed as straight wing walls, and running the full width of each is a string course moulded with arris, which merges with the top of the buttress offsets. Above this a parapet. Wing walls and parapets terminate with square piers. The piers and parapet are unified by coping cut on the external face to a bold arris. Post-war, galvanised steel, round section railings mounted above the coping to both faces which are not of interest.