Description

SJ 51 SW
SJ 5194 1253 UFFINGTON C.P. -

3/68 Bridge No.438
3/4/85 (Belvidere Bridge)
(that part in
Uffington C.P.)

- II*

Railway bridge. Dated 1848, William Baker engineer; restored and
slightly altered in 1984. Chamfered rusticated grey sandstone ashlar
piers, engineering brick retaining walls and end piers with ashlar
dressings, and painted cast iron arches and decking. 2 segmental skew
arches, each consisting of 6 cast ribs with lattice spandrels; central
pier with rounded rock-faced cutwater; coped curved retaining walls
and square end piers with rock-faced ashlar quoins and stone caps;
late C20 balustrade replacing 1848 one. Maker's plate on eastern
arch to south: "CAST AT COALBROOKDALE FOUNDRY 1848"; shield-shaped
plaques on central pier to south: "WILLIAM BAKER ESQ/ENGINEER/1848",
and to north: "HAMMOND AND MURRAY/CONTRACTOR/1848". There are also
datestones on the railway side of the parapets to the central pier.
Each of the ribs is made up from short cast sections bolted together.
The Shrewsbury to Oakengates section of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham
Railway was opened on June 1st, 1849 and the whole of the line to
Wolverhampton on November 12th of the same year. The original estimate
for the bridge was £80,000, and it was formerly numbered 4 on the
Shrewsbury-Wellington Line. The bridge spans the River Severn. Rex
Christiansen, A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain,
Vol.7 The West Midlands, David and Charles (1983), Pp.80-95; Richard
K. Morriss, Railways of Shropshire: a brief history, Shropshire
Libraries (1983), Pp.17-23 and p.72 (i11.); Shropshire Railway
Society, Shropshire Railways Revisited, Shropshire Libraries (1982),
i11.26.

Listing NGR: SJ5194812526

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Belvidere Bridge at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17541438

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