Mercury Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1969. Bridge. 1 related planning application.
Mercury Bridge
- WRENN ID
- standing-chapel-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1969
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Mercury Bridge, A6136, St. Martin'S
- OS grid reference
- NZ 175 009
- Coordinates
- 54.40396, -1.73082
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mercury Bridge, also known as Station Bridge, is a bridge built around 1846 by G T Andrews for George Hudson's Great North of England Railway. It is constructed from rock-faced sandstone ashlar and features four segmental-pointed double-chamfered arches, which are topped by a continuous label with shields over the center of the piers. The piers have small cutwaters, and the parapet is adorned with a Lombard frieze that supports triangular coping with a rolled ridge, along with a hollow-chamfered outer slope and double-coursed inner slope.
Over each pier, there were corbelled bases intended for pinnacles that once carried gas lamps; however, all the pinnacles have been demolished except for part of the southernmost one on the upstream parapet. The parapets have octagonal terminals with corniced moulded conical caps. Originally, the bridge provided vehicular access to the Railway Station from the town of Richmond across the River Swale. During World War I, the road was extended by Italian prisoners of war to provide access to Catterick Camp, which was under construction at that time. Mercury Bridge is part of an important surviving group of railway buildings and is located partly in Richmond Parish.
Local climate
Mercury Bridge receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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