Queensberry Bridge Amesbury, England
Listed Building Data
Queensberry 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1318463
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 10 October 1988
- Name
- QUEENSBERRY BRIDGE
- Location
- QUEENSBERRY BRIDGE, CHURCH STREET
- Parish
- Amesbury
- District
- Wiltshire
- Grid Reference
- SU 15107 41309
- Easting
- 415107.0000
- Northing
- 141309.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
AMESBURY CHURCH. STREET SU 1541 11/10 Queensberry Bridge
II Road bridge over the River Avon. 1775 by John Smeaton. Limestone ashlar on elm plank foundations. Central horizontal section of 3 segmental arches of rusticated voussoirs and raised keyblocks, meeting string band at base of parapet. At each end a smaller single arch similarly turned. Cutwaters to piers both sides. Parapet has raised central panel bearing incised inscription MDCCLXXV each side. Bridge widens at abutments and terminates with rusticated quoins. (Turner, T. The Engineer of his Age CL. 6.6.1974. design in Royal Society)
Listing NGR: SU1510741309
