Description

The following building shall be added:

SP 57 NW
8/59

NEWTON AND BIGGIN
WATLING STREET (A5)
Dow Bridge

II

Road bridge (now disused) carrying Watling Street over the River Avon. An
1838 partial rebuild of an earlier bridge (probably C18). Tooled coursed
ashlar. Chamfered coping. 6 elliptically headed arches; the arch to the
NW has a keystone carrying the date 'W.P. 1838'. The 2 NW arches almost
completely rebuilt in 1838 (perhaps retaining the earlier cutwater), but
considerable sections of an earlier bridge survive (built of rougher coursed
masonry), especially at the SE end. The road level has been built up to the
level of the parapet coping. A 1722 engraving of an earlier bridge is to be
found in Warwickshire Record Office; it is possible that the present structure
incorporates sections of the bridge illustrated.

Listing NGR: SP5435077923

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Dow Bridge at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26565997

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2