Scampston Bridge

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SE 87 NE 8/41

SCAMPSTON A 64 Scampston Bridge

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Bridge. c1775, widened in 1933. Probably designed by Capability Brown or Henry Holland for Sir William St Quintin, 5th Baronet. Upstream side red brick in English garden wall bond with sandstone parapet and dressings. Downstream side sandstone ashlar. Cast-iron railings. Three semi-circular spans, the central taller, between abutments. Upstream arches of ashlar blocks separated by pilaster piers with tooled stone imposts. Flat cornice, raked-up over abutments and flanking arches. Downstream arches in block rusticated archivolts. Alternately-rusticated pilaster piers flank bridge; abutment piers plain. Bridge cornice dentilled, abutment cornices plain, raked as on upstream side. Parapets, balustraded over arches and with cambered coping; alterately wavy and stick railings over the abutments. Square-section alternately-rusticated piers with pyramidal caps.

Road sides of piers flanking central arches are inscribed:

Upstream side: MALTON 6 MILES LONDON 222 MILES

Downstream side: YORK 24 MILES SCARBOROUGH 16 MILES

Date of widening recorded on plaque over central arch on downstream side. West pier on upstream side demolished at time of resurvey. Bridge was designed as a feature, visible from Scampston Hall, when the Park was laid out by Capability Brown. Beneath the bridge, a weir controls the flow of water from the Swan Beck into the lake.

Listing NGR: SE8672774807