Clay Lane Bridge (MLN111226)

MATERIALS: pennant stone, squared and coursed on the faces and soffit, with Bath stone ashlar voussoirs, string course, buttress and parapet copings. Some patching in red and purple GWR engineering brick.

DESCRIPTION: depressed, four-centred arch with 30ft (9m) span and stepped and chamfered voussoirs terminating at the footings in chamfer stops. Some engineering brick patching of the voussoirs on both faces. Arch flanked by buttresses, each with two off-sets with arris profile. The lower stage of both buttresses on the west (high mileage) elevation and one on the east (low mileage) elevation have been refaced in engineering brick. To either side the elevations spreads out as straight wing walls. Moulded string course with arris incorporates the line of the upper buttress off-set and runs the full width of the elevation until abutting the plain bands of projecting end piers. Parapets have coping flush to the inside face and chamfered to an arris on the outer face, and a substantial step with quarter-round profile at the base of the inside face against the roadway. Low raked retaining walls of course and squared Pennant stone extend from the wing walls along the base of the cutting sides in both directions for various distances.