Baluster Bridge and Gate Piers Amesbury, England
Listed Building Data
Baluster Bridge and Gate Piers has been designated a Grade II* listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1131082
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II*
- Date Listed
- 10 January 1953
- Name
- BALUSTER BRIDGE AND GATE PIERS
- Location
- BALUSTER BRIDGE AND GATE PIERS
- Parish
- Amesbury
- District
- Wiltshire
- Grid Reference
- SU 14953 41888
- Easting
- 414953.4840
- Northing
- 141888.1440
Listed Building Description
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AMESBURY - SU 1541 11/4 Baluster Bridge and gate piers
10.1.53 GV II* Ornamental bridge over River Avon. 1775, rebuilt by Sir William Chambers. Limestone. Three segmental arches with archivolts. Rusticated stonework. Wide band at base of parapet and balustrade of continuous balusters terminating in flattened scrolls linking at angle to piers. Cutwaters both sides. At entrance on to bridge, octagonal tapered bollards restrict traffic to centre. At north end two gate piers, line rusticated, with cornice and block, the finials missing. Wrought iron gates and pedestrian gates outside piers. Of group value as part of the landscape works designed by Henry Flitcroft 1726-30 and Charles Bridgeman 1730-38, and added to by others during the eighteenth century.
Listing NGR: SU1495341888
