Description

DARTINGTON SX7861-SX7961 DARTINGTON HALL 13/133 Bridge immediately NE of Dartington Lodge

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Bridge carrying drive to Dartington Hall (qv) over Bidwell Brook. Probably mid C19, altered in 1931 by O P Milne limestone rubble with dressed stone voussoirs to arch, coping stones and terminal piers. Single span roughly elliptical arch with dressed stone voussoirs and slightly larger keystone. In 1931 0 P Milne added cambered parapets with dressed stone coping sept out of the ends to circular terminal piers like a scroll on plan; the parapets at the north end extend further giving the parapets an asymmetrical curved profile; the piers at the south end have cast cement caps, the south west in the farm of another holding a fish and the south east a face cub. The parapets are a C20 addition. A painting dated 1883 in the possession of the occupier of Dartington Lodge (qv) shows the lodge and the bridge without the parapets and terminal piers. Source: Victor Bonham-Carter, Dartington Hall 1925-56 page 32, in Dartington Hall archive.

Listing NGR: SX7989961507

External Links

• Wikidata Q26610545

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (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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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)