Stone Wharf Bridge (MLN111042)

MATERIALS: squared and coursed Pennant stone walling and soffit, Bath ashlar dressings for voussoirs, quoins, string course and copings.

DESCRIPTION: south (Down) elevation: facing the A4, Bath-Bristol Turnpike, a fully articulated composition with a depressed, four-centred arch with a span of 16 ft (5m) and chamfered voussoirs terminating at the footings in chamfer stops. Low continuous chamfered plinth to the abutments. Archway flanked by stepped buttresses, the offsets with drip-mould and arris. Beyond the buttresses the face continues unbroken and parallel to the trackbed as straight wing walls, with a string course moulded with arris which merges with the top of the upper offsets of the buttresses. Above, a continuous parapet terminating in projecting piers. The piers and parapet are unified by chamfered coping. C20 steel railings mounted above the coping.

North (Up) elevation: facing fields, a much more austere design, with ashlar dressing restricted to coping and no mouldings. Plain chamfered four-centred arch, plain wall face, raked wing walls splayed but almost perpendicular to the railway. No parapet. C20 steel railings mounted above the coping.

Arch soffit and carriageway faces unaltered throughout.