Dauntsey Road Bridge (MLN18849)

Dauntsey Road Bridge is a Grade II listed structure featuring original handmade red brick in some areas of the piers, arch rings, and soffits. The elevations and parapets have been refaced with red engineering brick, accented by purple engineering brick detailing, arranged in English bond.

The bridge has a sweeping humpback profile with elegantly concave elevations. It features a central arch with a standard span of 30 feet (9 meters), while the side arches are the same height but have a span of approximately 15 feet (4.5 meters) and a more rounded profile. Each pier has a single transverse arch. A chamfered purple engineering brick string course, originally moulded, runs along the structure. The parapets end in piers that project only on the outer face at the ends of the curved wing walls. The west parapet, which experiences high traffic, is made of red and purple Great Western Railway (GWR) engineering brick. The inner face of the parapets has low chamfered plinths, and the coping is made of bull-nosed purple engineering brick, except for the terminating piers, which feature quarry-faced stone blocks.

The bridge is situated between the villages of Dauntsey Lock and Christian Malford, set in a gentle agricultural landscape. It is visible from the nearly identical Dauntsey accommodation bridge, located a quarter mile east along the line towards Swindon.