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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1969
- Type
- Bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ST MARTINS A 6136 NZ 10 SE
4/111 Mercury Bridge (formerly listed as 4.2.69 Station Bridge (that half in Richmond Rural District))
GV II
Marked on Ordnance Survey Map as Station Bridge. Bridge. c1846. By G T Andrews for George Hudson's Great North of England Railway. Rock-faced sandstone ashlar. Four segmental-pointed double-chamfered arches, under continuous label with shields over centre of piers. Small cutwaters to piers. Lombard frieze to parapet, supporting triangular coping with rolled ridge, and hollow-chamfered outer slope and double-coursed inner slope. Over each pier, corbelled bases formerly to pinnacles carrying gas-lamps, pinnacles all demolished except for part of southernmost one on upstream parapet. Octagonal terminals to parapets, with corniced moulded conical caps. Originally built to give vehicular access to the Railway Station from the town of Richmond on the other side of the River Swale, but during World War I the road was extended by Italian prisoners of war to give access to Catterick Camp, then under construction. Biddle G & Nock O S, The Railway Heritage of Britain (1983), p 38. Partly in Richmond Parish. One of an important surviving group of railway buildings.
Listing NGR: NZ1757200976
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