Horn Bridge, Tollymore Park, Newcastle, Co Down

Decorative vehicle bridge of c.1770 carrying a drive within Tollymore Park over a (now largely culverted) stream. The bridge is situated to the N of the park, just S of where Tollymore House once stood. The bridge is mainly harled and has a single, small, pointed arch. Either side of the arch are quatrefoil recesses and end ‘pilaster’ piers. The outer ends of the face of the bridge are set back slightly. The castellated parapet is oversails and has (roughly) circular ‘end’ piers with domed caps and rectangular recesses to inner and outer ‘sides’. To the E and W ends the parapets are splayed and have granite coping. The parapets terminate in square end piers surmounted by rugby ball-sized ‘bap’ stones. The drive over the bridge is covered in fine gravel. Below the bridge the stream has been culverted and one is able to walk under the arch (on a wooden board walk) and unto paths to N and S. These paths are fringed with low rubble walling and are accompanied (at different points along the stream) by small ornamental bridges, with low parapets matching the fringes to the paths. Stone steps to paths.