Road-over-railway Bridge, Moira Road, Lisburn, Co Antrim, BT28

A two-arch brick and stone bridge carries the Lisburn-Moira road over the former Lisburn-Castlewellan railway. The abutments, pier, spandrels, parapets and wing walls are of quarried random rubble basalt. The quoins of the abutments and piers, together with the ends of the wing walls and parapets, are finished with rusticated and margined basalt blocks. Both arches are of segmental profile and set slightly skewly to the abutments. Their soffits are of purple brick (orthogonally laid), with three soldier courses forming the voussoirs. Rusticated sandstone platbands run through each arch at spring level. A rusticated sandstone string course runs along the base of each parapet and around the ends of the latter’s out-projecting terminal piers. The wing walls are also coped with rusticated sandstone blocks; the copings are partly missing on both wings on the north side. The parapets are coped with dressed sandstone blocks with rusticated edges. The approaches to the bridge are ramped. The slightly curved deck carries two lanes of traffic and a footpath. Modern timber partitions now cut across each arch to separate the properties at either end of the bridge. No traces of the railway line survive on either side, the ground having been levelled for factory storage purposes.