Description

SK69SE
10/16
27 November 1984

BAWTRY
GAINSBOROUGH ROAD
Bawtry Bridge

II

Bridge. 1810; builder Mr. Flavel of Wetherby (Peck, p 13); widened 1940.
Rock-faced gritstone voussoirs; horizontally-tooled magnesian limestone
walling. 3 segmental arches with projecting keystones; the central arch
larger and flanked by triangular cutwaters; the outer arches flanked by
buttresses. Both cut waters and buttresses rise to the parapet as projecting
piers linked by a cambered band which continues across wing walls terminating
in cylindrical piers set on square bases. Domed parapet copings. South
side, dated 1940, is the re-used facade of 1810; north parapet, facing road,
is inscribed Y/N denoting the county boundary. Built for £3,000 on a
foundation of 144 piles overlain by 2 thicknesses of planks. Partly in the
parish of Scaftworth in the County of Nottinghamshire.
W. Peck, Bawtry and Thorne, 1813.

Listing NGR: SK 65586 92669

External Links

• Historic England Listing

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]