Witchampton Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 2015. Bridge.
Witchampton Bridge
- WRENN ID
- fossil-trefoil-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 2015
- Type
- Bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Road bridge over the River Allen, built in 1795 by Samuel Kent, incorporating some earlier fabric.
MATERIALS: brick with stone dressings.
DESCRIPTION: triple-arched, hump-backed bridge designed in a classical style. It has three unequal spans, each having a segmental-headed arch, with stone keystones and an oversailing archivolt ring. They are set on stone piers which step back above the foundations of an earlier bridge, and there are cutwaters on the upstream (north) side. There is a brick stringcourse below the parapet and roundels at each end, obscured (2015) by vegetation. The parapet is surmounted by stone copings and the walls curve outwards at each end, terminating in square piers. The parapet carries two C19 cast-iron plaques: a traction engine plate and a transportation plate.
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