Listed Building: LADY WIMBORNE'S BRIDGE (412563)

POOLE SZ09NW OAKLEY HILL 958-1/2/124 Lady Wimborne's Bridge 28/11/91 II Railway bridge, disused. 1853. By Sir Charles Barry Jnr. For Sir Joseph Guest of Canford Manor (qv) and the Southampton and Dorset Railway. Limestone ashlar with brick flanking walls; vault and flanking retaining walls of Upton brick with stone coping. 4-centre double-wave moulded arch to each side of bridge has spandrels carved with scrolls, foliage and coat of arms surrounded by a splayed reveal and surmounted by a corbel table with 5 corbels carved with shields on foliage; splayed coping above surmounted by stone coat of arms and capped by double-ogee moulded coping. Each end of the bridge parapet terminated by carved pinnacles. Flanking abutments terminate with carved stone coats of arms on galleted piers. HISTORICAL NOTE: a signed and dated drawing exists in the RIBA Collection. An elaborate design, in the Canford Estate style seen on a number of houses built at the instigation of Lady Wimborne. (Barry Sir C Jnr: 1853-). Listing NGR: SZ0189498998

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