Listed Building record MDO3834 - Piper's Mill Bridge, Fontmell Magna

A bridge built in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, of rubble with ashlar. The bridge has a single arch. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

Piper's Mill Bridge (85751698), of the late 18th or early 19th century, has one semi-circular arch of ashlar, and spandrels and parapet walls of rubble, the latter with rounded ashlar coping. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 1:10,560, 1962 (Map). SDO18658.

(ST 85751698) Piper's Mill Bridge (NAT).

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 26 (Monograph). SDO99.

'Unless otherwise described the following mills and associated buildings are of the early 19th century. .. (30) Piper's Mill Bridge (85751698), of the late 18th or early 19th century, has one semicircular arch of ashlar, and spandrels and parapet walls of rubble, the latter with rounded ashlar coping.'

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205996 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 22 2022 11:27AM