Description

CREDITON

SX8399 STATION ROAD
672-1/4/154 Footbridge immediately west of
24/08/89 Crediton Railway Station Main Range

GV II

Footbridge over railway line. 1878 (datestone), built for the
LSWR. Rock-faced, grey limestone piers with Bathstone
dressings; plate girder iron bridge and stair construction,
timber steps.
Plan: each pier contains a small store room and supports 2
flights of steps up to the bridge; those on the west side with
landings, those on the east lead onto the station platforms.
The east side of the bridge is unfloored and railed off with
cast iron railings.
Exterior: The piers have clasping buttresses and parapets with
plain coping. Each storeroom has a chamfered doorway on the
west side and crank-arched chamfered window on the outer face
with a 4-pane sash window. In the parapet above the south
window of the south pier there is a chamfered recessed panel
with a Shield inscribed "L. & S.W.R.Y. 1878." The flights of
steps on the west side of the bridge are supported on 4 cast
iron columns fluted capitals. The bridge was formerly roofed
over (information from railway worker).
Interior: The storerooms are plain with brick barrel-vaulted
roofs.
Historical Note: The complicated early history of the line,
which began in 1838, led to its being known as the 'Vicar of
Bray Railway', but eventually the Exeter and Crediton Railway
(Act of 1845) was leased to the Bristol and Exeter Railway who
converted to broad guage and opened May 12 1851 until the LSWR
took over the lease in 1862 (St John Thomas, pp.92-96).
An attractive bridge and part of a group of C19 railway
buildings of different dates.
(A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: St John
Thomas, David,: The West Country: PP.92-96).

Listing NGR: SX8392199493

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504656

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