Description

MIDDLESBROUGH FERRY ROAD.
NZ 42 SE (4921)
1/34 Piers, railings and
gates at entrance to
Transporter Bridge.
G.V. II.
Piers, gatepiers, railings and gates, at entrance to Tees Transporter Bridge
(q.v.), 1910 by G.C. Imbault (Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Co., Ltd),
engineer; constructed by Hill and Smith (Brierley Hill, Staffs). Rockfaced
granite piers; iron railings, gatepiers and lamp brackets. 2 granite piers,
flanking entrance to bridge, each with large polished granite tablet with
inscribed recessed panel recording foundation of bridge in 1910. On each
pier, a short colonnette, with moulded and chamfered base, supporting fluted
stem and 2 scrolled lamp brackets; Middlesbrough Corporation arms fixed to
colonette; lamps now missing. Flanking the piers are spike-topped railings
and gates, and slender square gatepiers and intermediate piers, with crown
and ball-on-stem finials. Gates have scrolled side bars. Similar railings
and piers run at right-angles to those at entrance, from river side along
west side of road for c.35m, terminating in similar gate. Included for
group value.

Listing NGR: NZ4994321220

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26432658

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)