Record Details
NHER Number: | 16721 |
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Type of record: | Structure |
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Name: | Carleton Bridge |
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Summary
An early 19th-century bridge built of red brick and clad in white brick. The bridge has three arches, and has a carved coat-of-arms of the Wodehouse family bearing the date 1815.
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TG 0928 0539 |
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Map Sheet: | TG00NE |
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Parish: | KIMBERLEY, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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| WYMONDHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Carleton Bridge.
November 1978. Field Observation.
Visited by E. Rose (NAU).
1815. White brick cladding on red brick. On three rounded arches, rising abruptly in centre. Divided by low rounded cutwaters.
Only one of the arches now crosses the Rivery Tiffey which was formerly much wider here. Date is carved beneath Wodehouse coat of arms on east. Excellent design, but now in very poor condition.
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU) 10 November 1980. Information from record card (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 19 March 2022.
August 1983. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Road bridge...1815 on datestone with Wodehouse crest and motto. Gault brick with stone dressings. Three segmental arches of two orders with hollow-chamfered stone hood-moulds. Splayed parapets with stone copings."
Information from (S2).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S2) for the current listing details.
P. Watkins (HES), 19 March 2022.
Monument Types
- BRIDGE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
--- | Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, B. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 240. |
<S1> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
<S2> | Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1050744. |
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