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This is the Clopton Bridge in Stratford-upon-Avon.

This is a photo of listed building number 1204167.

Clopton Bridge and Attached Former Toll House, Stratford-upon-Avon

   STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
   SP2054 BRIDGE FOOT
   604-1/6/6 Clopton Bridge and attached former
   25/10/51 toll house
   (Formerly Listed as:
   BRIDGETOWN
   Clopton Bridge)
   GV I
   Bridge. c1484 with C16 and C17 repairs; widened and toll house
   built 1814; footway added 1827; later parapets. For Sir Hugh
   Clopton; footway by J Nicolls, made by the Eagle Foundry,
   Birmingham.
   Coursed squared stone and ashlar with cast-iron. 14 segmental
   pointed arches with platt band and plain parapets over;
   widened to north side, which has cutwaters. Cast-iron footway
   to north side is cantilevered on lattice work brackets with
   enriched spandrels; scrolled supports to posts, which support
   panels of rails with semicircular links to head and foot.
   10-sided toll house to south of west end has platt band and
   crenellated parapet. Entrance, in porch to return, has
   4-centred head and door of 4 arched panels, porch is
   weather-boarded to return and rear. Windows have sills and
   4-centred heads, most are blind, some have small-paned
   casements of 2 pointed lights. Bell-form rainwater head.
   The bridge was originally attached to a causeway to the west.
   An important survival of a medieval bridge forming a
   significant landscape feature. A Scheduled Ancient Monument.
   (VCH: Styles P: The Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon and the
   Parish of Alveston: London: 1946-: 9; Buildings of England:
   Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 416).


   Listing NGR: SP2058654852


This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.

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