Respryn Bridge

SX 06 SE 3/142 21/8/64

ST WINNOW Respryn Bridge

II*

Bridge over River Fowey. C15 with later partial rebuildings and repairs. Dressed moorstone in courses and rubblestone with granite copings. 4 refuges above cutwaters to each side between 5 arches of differing date, span and design, all without ribs. First arch (east end) round-headed with off-set rubble stone walling above and parapet carried on later stone lintel splay. Second arch wider and segmental, probably also C16/17, similarly treated above arch. Centre arch appears to be C15 but centring not symmetrical. Similarly treated above arch. Pier to right is massive. Arches 4 and 5 are wider 4-centred without off-set walling above constructed entirely of coursed and dressed moorstone. Arches 4 and 5 may be C19 reusing old stone. A bridge existed in 1300 and an early Charter refers to C12/13 Chapel of St Martin. The original arrangement of the spans is no longer clear. The bridge was guarded by Royalists at the outbreak of the Civil War. Scheduled as Ancient Monument. C Henderson and H Coates, Old Cornish Bridges and Streams, 1928, rp.1972 pp 76-77

Listing NGR: SX0994463487