Bridge over the railway at Chantmarle is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 2016. Bridge.
Bridge over the railway at Chantmarle
- WRENN ID
- guardian-pavement-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 2016
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- ST 590 022
- Coordinates
- 50.81815, -2.58276
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The bridge over the railway at Chantmarle is a stone structure built around 1910 by Francis Inigo Thomas for Francis Savile. It crosses the Yeovil to Weymouth railway line and serves as part of the approach to Chantmarle Manor.
Constructed from Ham stone, the bridge features concrete supports and brick retaining walls. It is a single-span design with stone balustrades along the parapets. On either side facing the railway line, there are large central keystones made of ashlar stone, with voussoirs and corbelled sections on the supporting embankment walls. The parapets consist of four sections of balustrading with piers in between. The central piers above the keystones have recessed panels. At each end of the parapets, there are large piers, and a moulded plinth runs along the length of the bridge on both sides. The end piers are topped with large blocking stones, from which the parapet cappings extend over the balustrades.
Local climate
Bridge over the railway at Chantmarle receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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