Gorse Lane Bridge, HUL3/8

Gorse Lane Bridge is a railway overbridge built between 1830 and 1834 by James Walker of Walker & Burges for the Leeds & Selby Railway.

The bridge features a single-span design that carries a road over the railway, with the capacity to accommodate four tracks. It is constructed from squared, coursed, and tooled sandstone ashlar blocks, along with squared, coursed, and quarry-faced Magnesium limestone blocks. The basket arch is made of sandstone ashlar, with stepped, tooled, and inscribed v-jointed voussoirs that spring from a wide, horizontally-tooled impost band. The arch soffit consists of large stone blocks. The abutments are made of smaller blocks of coursed, quarry-faced Magnesium limestone. The parapets are constructed from larger blocks of sandstone ashlar, featuring pronounced horizontal tooling and ending in distinctive oval piers. These parapets rest on square-cut, tooled string courses and have asymmetrically-curved coping with horizontal tooling.

It is noted that the 20th-century railings made of horizontal timber planks with metal struts attached to the original stone parapets are not considered to have special architectural or historic interest.