Description

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OAKLEY HILL
Lady Wimborne's Bridge

28/11/91

II
Railway bridge, disused. 1853. By Sir Charles Barry. For Sir Joseph Guest of Canford Manor (qv) and the Southampton and Dorchester Railway. Limestone ashlar with brick flanking walls; vault and flanking retaining walls of Upton brick with stone coping. Four-centre double-wave moulded arch to each side of bridge has spandrels carved with scrolls, foliage and coat of arms surrounded by a splayed reveal and surmounted by a corbel table with five corbels carved with shields on foliage; splayed coping above surmounted by stone coat of arms and capped by double-ogee moulded coping. Each end of the bridge parapet terminated by carved pinnacles. Flanking abutments terminate with carved stone coats of arms on galleted piers.

HISTORICAL NOTE: a signed and dated drawing exists in the RIBA Collection. An elaborate design, in the Canford Estate style seen on a number of houses built at the instigation of Lady Wimborne.

Listing NGR: SZ0189498998

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Lady Wimborne Bridge at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q6470601

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings