Bridge Carrying Approach Road to Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Bridge.
Bridge Carrying Approach Road to Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-hearth-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Bridge Carrying Approach Road to Cemetery, Waterloo Road, Shepton Mallet
- OS grid reference
- ST 619 440
- Coordinates
- 51.19443, -2.5463
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a bridge built in 1856 by Wainwright and Heard, carrying the approach road to the cemetery. It is constructed of coursed limestone blocks with dressed voussoirs. The bridge features a broad semi-circular arch that rises 4 metres from Cowl Street, with a string course at the base of each parapet. The parapets are topped with segmental copings and finished at each end with square pillars that have pagodal finials. The walls are buttressed with rubble, supporting the elevated road approaches, which extend 30 metres to the west and 20 metres to the east.
Local climate
Bridge Carrying Approach Road to Cemetery receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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