Listed Building record MDO5772 - Bridge at Stanbridge, Horton

Medieval bridge mentioned in 1399 consisting of four two-centred arches. Repairs dated by a date stone to 1666 and further repairs during the 18th century.

Department of the Environment, 1986, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Wimborne District (Scheduling record). SDO17336.

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1932, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1931, 215 (Serial). SDO35.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 35-36 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(2) BRIDGE (01370885), of ashlar and squared rubble, crossing the R. Allen on the W. boundary of the parish, stands on or near the site of a mediaeval bridge and may itself be partly mediaeval. On Norden's early 17th-century map of Cranborne Chase (C.P.M., sup. 18) the site is named Pons Petreus, and a stone bridge was recorded at or near this place in the 13th century (T. Dayrell-Reed, Dorset Procs., LIII (1931), 215). The present bridge has four two-centred arches with lightly chamfered arrises. To widen the roadway, facing voussoirs carrying a weathered string-course and parapet walls have been added to the earlier arches on both sides (Plate 26). A date-stone of 1666 set in the S. parapet corresponds with Quarter Sessions orders of 1664 for the repair of 'Stanbridge'; the facing voussoirs and parapet seem, however, to be 18th-century work and the date-stone has probably been reset.'

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213027 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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