Common Lane Bridge, HUL3/4

Single-span intersector bridge, built c1839-40 under the direction of Robert Stephenson.

MATERIALS: red brick with sandstone ashlar impost bands, cordons, and coping stones.

PLAN: rectangular-plan with canted flanking wing walls.

Symmetrical single-span, segmental arched bridge. The brick arch springs from an ashlar impost band in each abutment. The spandrels and abutments are of red brick and extending out from these, are canted red brick wing walls with ashlar coping stones, terminating in low square brick piers with ashlar cap stones. The brick parapet walls rest on ashlar cordons and are capped by ashlar coping stones, terminating in rectangular brick piers with ashlar plinths.