Description

The asset was previously listed twice also under List entry 1382008. This entry was removed from the List on 25th February 2016.

SE 46 SE
4/9
12.12.88

GREAT OUSEBURN
BOAT LANE

Aldwark Bridge

II

Tollbridge. Mid C18, part replaced in late C19. Iron-framed bridge with
timber decking, and one surviving brick arch on sandstone cutwater;
floodarches red brick in loose English garden wall bond with sandstone
dressings; sandstone and brick abutment walls and piers on Aldwark bank.
Flat 4-span bridge on tall slender columns flanked by semicircular brick
arches between pilaster piers with round-arched recessed panels. Arch on
Aldwark side is skewed and spans part of river. Arcades of semicircular
floodarches between pilaster piers and with flat, tooled coping, on each
bank. Arcade on Aldwark bank terminates in splayed walls with flat
coping, ramped up from piers with flat caps. Bridge statute approved in
1768; centre part washed away in flood of 1880.

Listing NGR: SE 46708 62177

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Aldwark Bridge at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26443133

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