Description

SS 63 NW
4/53
25.2.65

BRATTON FLEMING
Chelfham Viaduct

II

Viaduct, serving the dismantled Lynton-Barnstaple railway, 1896-7. Engineer,
F. W. Chanter. Yellow brick with rock-faced plinths to the piers. 400 feet long
and 70 feet high. 8 tall arches with semicircular heads springing from unmoulded
impost bands. 2 shallow pilasters flank the 4 principal arches on the west side,
and a single pilaster to centre on east side, all with unmoulded capitals of 8
oversailing brick courses. "More than a quarter of a million bricks were used in
its construction, and the cost was about £6,500". L T Catchpole The Lynton and
Barnstaple Railway. The narrow gauge line was closed in 1935. The largest bridge
structure on a narrow gauge line.

Listing NGR: SS6095835622

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Chelfham Viaduct at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5089858

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5