Mercury Bridge St. Martin's, England
Listed Building Data
Mercury Bridge 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1317112
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 4 February 1969
- Name
- MERCURY BRIDGE
- Location
- MERCURY BRIDGE, A6136
- Parish
- St. Martin's
- District
- Richmondshire
- County
- North Yorkshire
- Grid Reference
- NZ 17572 00976
- Easting
- 417572.0000
- Northing
- 500976.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
ST MARTINS A 6136 NZ 10 SE
4/111 Mercury Bridge (formerly listed as 4.2.69 Station Bridge (that half in Richmond Rural District))
GV II
Marked on Ordnance Survey Map as Station Bridge. Bridge. c1846. By G T Andrews for George Hudson's Great North of England Railway. Rock-faced sandstone ashlar. Four segmental-pointed double-chamfered arches, under continuous label with shields over centre of piers. Small cutwaters to piers. Lombard frieze to parapet, supporting triangular coping with rolled ridge, and hollow-chamfered outer slope and double-coursed inner slope. Over each pier, corbelled bases formerly to pinnacles carrying gas-lamps, pinnacles all demolished except for part of southernmost one on upstream parapet. Octagonal terminals to parapets, with corniced moulded conical caps. Originally built to give vehicular access to the Railway Station from the town of Richmond on the other side of the River Swale, but during World War I the road was extended by Italian prisoners of war to give access to Catterick Camp, then under construction. Biddle G & Nock O S, The Railway Heritage of Britain (1983), p 38. Partly in Richmond Parish. One of an important surviving group of railway buildings.
Listing NGR: NZ1757200976
