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Viaduct Including Adjacent Piers to Earlier Viaduct

A Grade II* Listed Building in Dobwalls and Trewidland, Cornwall

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.4489 / 50°26'56"N

Longitude: -4.485 / 4°29'5"W

OS Eastings: 223675

OS Northings: 63957

OS Grid: SX236639

Mapcode National: GBR ND.P5SM

Mapcode Global: FRA 17HV.VZM

Plus Code: 9C2QCGX8+H2

Entry Name: Viaduct Including Adjacent Piers to Earlier Viaduct

Listing Date: 26 November 1985

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1312723

English Heritage Legacy ID: 61265

ID on this website: 101312723

Location: Dobwalls and Trewidland, Cornwall, PL14

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: Dobwalls and Trewidland

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: Liskeard

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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Listing Text

SX 26 SW LISKEARD RURAL MOORSWATER

10/64 Viaduct including adjacent piers to
earlier viaduct

II*

Railway viaduct and remains of piers of earlier viaduct. Earlier piers 1859 by
I.K. Brunel. Replacement viaduct, 1881. Engineer P.J. Margary. Resident
engineer, H.G. Cole was killed during the rebuilding by a crane overturning and
was succeeded by T.H. Gibbons. 7 tapering piers of snecked rock faced slatestone
with 8 semi-circular arches with granite long and short voussoirs. Moulded corbel
course with moulded stone brackets supporting on iron parapet railing of uprights,
Lattice braces and ornamental adjustment rings. Contemporary refuges corbelled
out on paired stone brackets. 954 feet in length and 147 feet high.
Remains of earlier piers to south similar to those used in St Pinnock viaduct
(qv). Roughly dressed, coursed slatestone with stepped buttresses with
weatherings rising to form 5 stages. Pointed openings piercing the 4 upper
stages. Arches to lowest stages with key stones.
One in series of viaducts in quick succession on Brunel's Plymouth to Truro G W R
line opened in 1859.
A C Todd and P Laws Industrial Archaeology of Cornwall 1972
A Pugsley (ed) The Works of I K Brunel 1980
R J Woodfin The Cornwall Railway 1972


Listing NGR: SX2367563957

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