River Avon Viaduct (MLN19078)

MATERIALS: handmade red brick with extensive refacing and patching in a mixture of red, brown and GWR purple and red engineering brick. Overall, however, the appearance is still strongly of red brick. English bond. The parapet coping is stone.

DESCRIPTION: three semi-elliptical arches over the river springing from rounded cutwaters with impost mouldings. Flanking these arches slightly raked piers and then a single narrower semi-circular flood arch on each bank. Tightly radiused and slightly raked abutments turn without break into short wing walls perpendicular to line of route. Across the top two plain string courses reading like a pared down classical cornice and then a low parapet with plain, square cut coping. Post-war round-section steel handrails attached to coping are not of special interest.