Listed Building record MDO23060 - Julian's Bridge, Julian's Road, Pamphill

Late fifteenth century bridge with seventeenth century alterations. Stone with brick parapet each side has three pointed pedestrian niches, part of this bridge is in the Parish of Pamphill

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 85-86 (Monograph). SDO129.

‘(5) JULIAN'S BRIDGE (00389985), of ashlar and squared rubble with some brickwork, carries the road to Bere Regis across the R. Stour on eight segmental-pointed arches (Plate 26). Within these arches are seen the chamfered Heathstone voussoirs of a narrower bridge in which some arches are semicircular, others two-centred. The earlier structure was built in 1636 (Quarter Sessions orders, D.C.R.O.). The outer arches were added in 1844, on both sides of the former bridge, to allow widening of the roadway; at the same time an additional arch was made. Above road level the additions of 1844 carry brick parapet walls with ashlar coping and with corbelled pedestrian refuges. The centre refuge on the S. has stone cartouches inscribed 1636 and 1844, the earlier date-stone perhaps having been removed from the original bridge and reset.
The causeway on the W. has three segmental-pointed arches of ashlar and brickwork, probably of 1844.’

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Feb 13 2015 4:38PM