Dauntsey Road Bridge (MLN18849)

MATERIALS: original handmade red brick appears to survive in some areas of the piers, arch rings and soffits, but otherwise elevations and parapets have been refaced in red engineering brick with purple engineering brick detailing. English bond.

DESCRIPTION: sweeping humpback profile and elegantly concave elevations. Central arch with standard 30ft (9m) span; side arches the same height but with a c. 15ft (4.5m) span, and more rounded profile. Piers with a single transverse arch each. Chamfered purple engineering brick string course (originally moulded). Parapets terminate in piers projecting on the outer face only, at the ends of the curved wing walls. The west (high mileage) parapet is of red and purple GWR engineering brick. Inner face of parapets have low chamfered plinths. Coping is bull-nosed purple engineering brick except for the terminating piers, which have quarry-faced stone blocks.

Located between the villages of Dauntsey Lock and Christian Malford in a gentle agricultural landscape, the bridge is intervisible with the near identical Dauntsey accommodation bridge (MLN18830), ¼ mile east up the line towards Swindon.