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Latitude: 54.9098 / 54°54'35"N
Longitude: -1.3829 / 1°22'58"W
OS Eastings: 439660
OS Northings: 557409
OS Grid: NZ396574
Mapcode National: GBR VCJ.X5
Mapcode Global: WHD55.QVNF
Plus Code: 9C6WWJ58+WR
Entry Name: Wearmouth Bridge
Listing Date: 17 October 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1279911
English Heritage Legacy ID: 391376
ID on this website: 101279911
Location: Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR1
County: Sunderland
Electoral Ward/Division: Hendon
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Sunderland
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear
Church of England Parish: Millfield St Mark
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Road bridge Through arch bridge Steel bridge
SUNDERLAND
NZ3957SE A 1018
920-1/18/2 Wearmouth Bridge
GV II
Road bridge with adjacent steps at NE. 1929. By Mott, Hay &
Anderson, resident engineer GL Groves, contractor Sir W Arroll
& Co. Ltd., Glasgow. Abutments rock-faced sandstone, with
reinforced concrete road deck and N abutment core; steel
superstructure and cast-iron footpath balustrades. Parabolic
3-pinned arch, of 2 ribs with span 375 feet, and spherical
bearings at hinges; K wind-bracing. Built on the site of an
iron bridge built in 1793 and widened by Robert Stephenson in
1856, and incorporating some of the balustrade from the 1856
work, the other panels being made to match. Steps at NE have
cast-iron overthrow at head and incorporate further 1856
fabric.
(Minute of the Proceedings of the Institute of Civil
Engineers: Groves GL: The New Wearmouth Bridge, Sunderland:
1930-: 144-166).
Listing NGR: NZ3966057409
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