Brent Mill Bridge

Date:
10 Jul 2001
Location:
Brent Mill Bridge, South Brent, South Hams, Devon
Reference:
IOE01/04922/02
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

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

SOUTH BRENT BRENT MILL SX 65 NE

9/73 Brent Mill Bridge - - II

Road bridge over River Avon. C17 or C18 pack-horse bridge widened on north side circa C18. Granite rubble with dressed granite arches. Large round main arch with smaller flood arch to west, both recessed have recessed arch rings. Parapets with chamfered granite coping. One later cutwater on both upstream and downstream sides with refuges in parapet above. James Green, country surveyor recorded the bridge in 1809 as it is today, therefore the widening is probably C18 and the bridge may be C17. Reference: C Henderson and J Jervoise, Old Devon Bridges, Page 25.

Listing NGR: SX6974759555

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1687 IOE Records taken by Brian Richards; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Brian Richards. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project

People & Organisations

Photographer: Richards, Brian

Rights Holder: Richards, Brian

Keywords

Granite, Rubble, Tudor Packhorse Bridge, Elizabethan Transport, Stuart Road Transport Site, Jacobean Bridge, Georgian Road Bridge