Building record 6515/1/1 - Footbridge at about SP832615

Packhorse and footbridge. Circa late C18 or early C19. Dressed limestone with dressed arch rings and coursed rubble parapet with chamfered coping; some of coping stones recast in concrete.

{1} Standing structure; small, narrow, post medieval, double arched stone foot bridge crossing a limb of the River Nene.

{2} Packhorse and footbridge. Circa late C18 or early C19. Dressed limestone with dressed arch rings and coursed rubble parapet with chamfered coping; some of coping stones recast in concrete. Humpback bridge with 2 segmental arches and footway of about 1 metre wide with surface of stone setts. The parapets were either added later or rebuilt. Small engineering brick cutwater added on west upstream side. The bridge spans a stream which was probably the original river course of The River Nene before a new cut was made immediately to the south.

<1> Foard G.R., 1979, Oral Report to SMR, (checked) (Oral Report). SNN51281.

<2> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 6/10001 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<3> 1986, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G05 (checked) (Catalogue). SNN100394.

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Oct 7 2020 3:18PM