Bell's Bridge, Mountjoy Road, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, BT78 is a Grade B1 listed building in the Fermanagh and Omagh local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 8 January 1981.

Bell's Bridge, Mountjoy Road, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, BT78

WRENN ID
swift-hinge-sepia
Grade
B1
Local Planning Authority
Fermanagh and Omagh
Country
Northern Ireland
Date first listed
8 January 1981
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

Description

A five-span road-over-river stone bridge, built 1886, set on a north-south axis carrying Mountjoy Road over the Strule River. Segmental arches have dressed sandstone voussoirs sprung from V-shaped cutwaters; squared and dressed stone piers; squared rubble spandrels and parapets with cement-rendered saddleback coping, cement-rendered soffits. The bridge has a tarmac double-carriageway flanked by widened granite pedestrian pavements. Parapets over each cutwater have later cast-iron lamp stands with foundry mark embossed “D. W. Windsor - Moddesson, Herts [Hertfordshire], England.” Setting:- The bridge is situated alongside the modern pedestrian bridge of the Strule Arts Centre to west, and the modern Strule Bridge to east; south embankment has river-level pedestrian pavement and substantial carriageway-level embankment stone wall to southwest, also to northwest, two-storey-over-raised-basement Strain’s Bar to southeast, grassy embankments to northeast.

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