Bridge over railway, at east end of Fountain Street, Antrim, Co Antrim

A single arched tunnel-like masonry bridge, skewed at one end, carrying the main road over a railway line, built of snecked basalt rubble with a segmental archway of rusticated sandstone voussoirs, a rusticated sandstone stringcourse projecting at carriageway level, and rusticated sandstone quoins to abutments. Vault of coursed sandstone, skewed at the south end. Abutments break forward to each side of the archway, with battered faces, with approach walls on north side angled back or curved back. Parapets of snecked basalt rubble, with rusticated sandstone copings except for a large granite coping at the western extremity on the north side; all copings feathered. At the western extremity on the south side the parapet is spliced to an adjacent higher basalt rubble retaining wall which has basalt rock copings. SETTING: The bridge stands at the eastern extremity of the main street which runs through the centre of the town; grassy sloping banks; railway line currently removed for repair or replacement.