Bridge At Teignbridge Crossing

TEIGNGRACE TEIGNBRIDGE CROSSING SX 87 SE

8/228 Bridge at Teignbridge - Crossing 23.8.55 - II

Road bridge over Stover Canal. Dated 1798. Coursed stone to impost level with rusticated stone jambs. Flemish bond buff-coloured brick above. Segmental brick arch with yellow terracotta keystones with goats head mask on north side and bearded mask on south side. Brick string course at road level and pilaster strips flanking in abutments. Brick parapets with rounded granite coping. Parapet appears to be rebuilt on the south side. Tablet at centre of north parapet inscribed:- "Erected by order of Thomas Taylor Esq., Thomas Love Esq., Thomas Kitson and Rev.B.W.Wrey. Magistrates of this County 1798". 2 pairs of cast iron circular moulded tie plates in the spandrels. Stover Canal was built by James Templer of Stover House q.v. 1790-92, the engineer was Thomas Gray of Exeter. It was improved by George Templer in 1824 when the locks were rebuilt in granite. The canal was nearly 2 miles long and joined the River Teign at Jetty Marsh near Newton Abbot where barges passed through the dredged Whitelake Channel to the estuary of the River Teign. The canal was a private venture and was built to transport Haytor granite after the Haytor granite tramway had been built in 1820. Reference: Charles Hadfield, The Canals of South West England, pp.118 to 122.

Listing NGR: SX8565473308