Respryn Bridge St. Winnow, England

Listed Building Data

Respryn 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
1329286
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II*
Date Listed
21 August 1964
Name
RESPRYN BRIDGE
Location
RESPRYN BRIDGE
Parish
St. Winnow
District
Cornwall
Grid Reference
SX 09944 63487
Easting
209944.0000
Northing
63487.0000

Listed Building Description

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SX 16 SW ST WINNOW

3/142 Respryn Bridge

21/8/64 - II*

Bridge over River Fowey. C15 with later partial rebuildings and repairs. Dressed moorstone in courses and rubblestone with granite copings. 4 refuges above cutwaters to each side between 5 arches of differing date, span and design, all without ribs. First arch (east end) round-headed with off-set rubble stone walling above and parapet carried on later stone lintel splay. Second arch wider and segmental, probably also C16/17, similarly treated above arch. Centre arch appears to be C15 but centreing not symmetrical. Similarly treated above arch. Pier to right is massive. Arches 4 and 5 are wider 4-centred without off-set walling above constructed entirely of coursed and dressed moorstone. Arches 4 and 5 may be C19 reusing old stone. A bridge existed in 1300 and an early Charter refers to C12/13 Chapel of St Martin. The original arrangement of the spans is no longer clear. The bridge was guarded by Royalists at the outbreak of the Civil War. Scheduled as Ancient Monument. C Henderson and H Coates, Old Cornish Bridges and Streams, 1928, rp.1972 pp 76-77

Listing NGR: SX0994463487