Pilton Bridge And Causeway South Of Pilton Quay Including Gates And Piers To Pilton Park / Whole Length Of Bridge And Causeway From Pilton Quay To Bridge Over Mill Leat

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

BARNSTAPLE

SS5533 PILTON CAUSEWAY, Pilton 684-1/6/309 Pilton Bridge and causeway S of 31/08/88 Pilton Quay, incl gates & piers to Pilton Park (Formerly Listed as: PILTON BRIDGE AND CAUSEWAY, Pilton Whole length of bridge & causeway from Pilton Quay ... to bridge over mill leat)

II

Bridge and causeway crossing and skirting the River Yeo. 1451, bridge rebuilt 1678; both widened by 3m in 1821. Bridge is of rubble with coping of chamfered granite blocks.

It has 2 round arches springing from a central pier with low cutwater on W side (E side is buried under late C20 roadworks). Above the cutwater is a shallow buttress rising to a plain string course just above the voussoirs of the arches.

Similar buttress at S end. Parapet on W side only. The underside of the bridge (seen from a distance) seems to show evidence of 2 builds. Parapet, complete with chamfered granite coping, continues right down the western side of the causeway, interrupted by 4 gates. The most northerly of these is a late C20 insertion, but the middle 2 (entering Pilton Park) are mid or late C19 with square stone ashlar piers and moulded tops; the low pyramidal caps appear to have been replaced in concrete. Original cast-iron gates survive, with spearheads and circular panels containing flowers; at the bottom a pair of intersecting diagonal braces with a boss bearing an illegible inscription. Southern gate, also leading into the park, has square piers of coursed stone rubble with pyramidal caps encased in cement. HISTORICAL NOTE: in 1451 Bishop Lacey granted an indulgence to penitents contributing to the bridge and causeway between Pilton and Barnstaple. In 1897, during work on the Lynton and Barnstaple railway, a 2-foot square stone was found, inscribed: `This causeway and the bridge were widened ten feet by public subscription in the year 1821 Shaddick and Knill, builders'. Bridge over mill leat to south not included. (Gribble JP: Memorials of Barnstaple: 1830-: 567-8, 618; Gardiner WF: Barnstaple, 1837-1897: 1897-: 229; Chanter JR & Wainwright T: Barnstaple Records: 1900-: 248).





Listing NGR: SS5574633736

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0990 IOE Records taken by Barbara Hilton; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Dr Barbara Hilton. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project