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Latitude: 52.5814 / 52°34'53"N
Longitude: -0.413 / 0°24'46"W
OS Eastings: 507630
OS Northings: 299362
OS Grid: TL076993
Mapcode National: GBR FWT.4DW
Mapcode Global: WHGMB.MCKV
Plus Code: 9C4XHHJP+HR
Entry Name: Great North Road Bridge Carrying North Bound Carriageway over the River Nene
Listing Date: 14 October 1991
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1331276
English Heritage Legacy ID: 50528
ID on this website: 101331276
Location: Wansford, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE8
County: Cambridgeshire
District: Huntingdonshire
Civil Parish: Wansford
Built-Up Area: Wansford
Traditional County: Huntingdonshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire
Church of England Parish: Thornhaugh and Wansford
Church of England Diocese: Peterborough
TL 07 99,
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WANSFORD, SIBSON-CUM-STIBBINGTON,
GREAT NORTH ROAD,
Great North Road Bridge carrying north-bound carriageway over The River Nene
II*
Road bridge over River Nene. 1925-28 by Owen Williams and Maxwell Ayrton for Ministry of Transport. Mass concrete constructions. Segmental arch to 109ft wide central span and two flanking flood arches each with 50ft span segmental arches carrying flat road deck. Between the main and flood arches the piers each have two pairs of cutwaters on either side rising from large splays at the bases to the refuges in the parapet; between the cutwaters the piers are pierced by round-headed arches. A
significant feature of the design are the arches that pierce the spandrels, two in each of the main arch spandrels and one for the flood arch spandrels, which have wide vertical expansion joints rising from the crowns of the arches and up through the parapets. There are four similar expansion joints above the extrados of the main arch. The point
where the expansion joint rises from the arch is emphasised by a chamfered recess instead of a keystone. The parapet projects on corbels which rise through it as pyramidal lozenge shapes. Inscriptions formed by shuttering include: the date in Roman numerals over the main arch, and in the main arch spandrels "County of Huntingdon" on the south side and "County of the Soke of Peterborough" on the north side.
This asset was previously listed twice. The duplicate record (List entry number 1274340) was removed from the List on 6 November 2018. The remaining record (List entry number 1331276) falls within the parishes of both Wansford and Sibson-cum-Stibbington.
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