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The Palladian Bridge

A Grade I Listed Building in Stourton with Gasper, Wiltshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.1044 / 51°6'15"N

Longitude: -2.3236 / 2°19'25"W

OS Eastings: 377438

OS Northings: 133952

OS Grid: ST774339

Mapcode National: GBR 0TV.MCK

Mapcode Global: VH97Z.NHYP

Plus Code: 9C3V4M3G+QH

Entry Name: The Palladian Bridge

Listing Date: 6 January 1966

Last Amended: 9 September 1987

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1131099

English Heritage Legacy ID: 321249

ID on this website: 101131099

Location: Stourton, Wiltshire, BA12

County: Wiltshire

Civil Parish: Stourton with Gasper

Traditional County: Wiltshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire

Church of England Parish: Upper Stour

Church of England Diocese: Salisbury

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Description


STOURTON WITH GASPER STOURHEAD GARDENS
ST 73 SE
(east side)
6/143 The Palladian Bridge
(formerly listed as
6.1.66 The Five Arch Bridge)
GV I

Bridge carrying turfed track over west arm of Garden Lake. 1762
for Henry Hoare, the design from Leoni's The Architecture of
Palladio, Book III, published in 1721. Limestone. Five segmental
arches with rusticated voussoirs and dropped keystones, cutwaters
on both sides, plat band to plain parapet with pitched coping,
square end piers. Important element in the view of the lake from
Stourton High Street.
(K. Woodbridge, The Stourhead Landscape, 1982)


Listing NGR: ST7743733952

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