Description

PORTLAND

SY67SE WIDE STREET, Yeates
969-1/1/191 (West side (off))
Bridge in Touts Quarry at NGR SY 685
727

II

Foot bridge over track or quarry rail bed. Dated 1854.
Dry-laid thin-bedded Portland stone with ashlar dressings. Set
between natural rock revetments where track cut through, arch
c 2.5m wide and 3.5m to crown, to tunnel vault c4m long, in
good dressed quoins and voussoirs, including cranked single
stone voussoir at haunches; above crown a plain stone with
inscription 'J.C.LANO 1854'. Bridge rises to c 5.5m, without
parapets, and with overgrown earth walkway. On the NW side,
which is overgrown with ivy (June 1991), there is an adit on
the N side, blocked with loose masonry at c 3m depth. A flight
of 27 concrete steps descends by the S abutment. The name Lano
occurs amongst the inscriptions in the churchyard to St.
George Reforne; this is a well-built structure with some
design pretension in an abandoned quarry area.

Listing NGR: SY6850972730

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26570853

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