Yeolm Bridge

WERRINGTON

SX 38 NW

9/164

23.8.57

Yeolm Bridge

(previously listed as Yeolmbridge Bridge, Werrington, Broadwoodwidger R.D., Devon)

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Road bridge over River Attery. Probably mid C14 widened in circa late C19. Stone rubble rebuilt parapets. Local dressed freestone arches. Two four-centred arches of approximately 5.5 metres span with central ashlar stone cutwaters on both sides. The arches unusual and early ribbed vaulting with three chamfered ribs to each arch. The roadway was originally 3.5 metres wide before the bridge was widened in the circa late C19 on the east side. The parapets have been rebuilt in stone rubble and the two cutwaters on the west side, continue up to form a refuges. The flood arches on the south side, in St Stephen by Launceston Rural, have been rebuilt in the C19 and C20; the first with a segmental dressed stone arch, the second with a reinforced steel joist and the third a granite lintel.

The bridge was described by Henderson as the 'oldest and most perfectly finished bridge in Cornwall'. It is of similar construction and date to the bridge at Clyst St Mary, Devon (1310) and the old Exe Bridge at Exeter.

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 September 2018.