Description

TL 96 NW THURSTON STATION ROAD

1/155 Railway bridge, 50m west
- of Thurston Station

GV II

Bridge, carrying the Ipswich to Bury St Edmunds railway line over Station
Road. 1846 by Frederick Barnes of Ipswich for the Ipswich, Bury and Norwich
Railway. Red and gault brick: much later patching in engineering brick of
both red and blue. An elliptical arch with vaulting in skewed (diagonally-
set) brickwork. Rusticated block quoins of gault brick rises from road level
at all 4 corners to a height of about 2 metres, supporting a heavy dentilled
cornice. From this rises the elliptical brick arch with vaulting in skewed
brickwork. At the centre of both faces of the arch is a limestone key-block
with sunk panel. Plain parapet, rising from deep cornice with modillions of
brick below. The embankment is retained by curved and slightly battered
retaining walls with stone copings.

Listing NGR: TL9176565021

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26478323

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