Disused Railway Bridge

MATERIALS: Red brick laid in English bond and with limestone bedding courses.

PLAN: The bridge supports a former railway track bed running east-west and has two segmental arches, the western one over Farndon Road and the eastern one over an excavated unpaved roadway to allow a greater vertical clearance for high-sided vehicles.

EXTERIOR: The north and south elevations of the bridge are identical and consist of two segmental arches springing from chamfered stone imposts running from north to south across the width of the bridge. The arches meet at a central brick pier with a chamfered stone cap and each have five lower courses of header-bond brick. To the east and west of the elevations are shallow brick terminating pilasters with string courses at the level of the parapet coping, and at the level of the track bed, the latter running the full width of each of the elevations. To either side of each elevation are splayed brick revetments with brick-on edge coping dropping to square-section square piers. These retain the earth embankment to the raised track bed. The parapets are plain and have brick-on-edge coping. The under sides of the arches have the brickwork laid in diagonal skewed courses, offset by five bricks, and to the east is a raised walkway of English-bond red brick with bullnosed engineering brick coping, protected by a timber railing.