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The viaduct was designed as a elegant structure, being around 1,600 feet (500 m) in length and carrying a straight line over 37 identical arches. Each of these semi-circular arches had a span of 30 feet (9.1 m) and was supported upon tapered red-brick piers. [4]
Brick arch: Hownsgill Viaduct: Healeyfield, County Durham: 210 m (690 ft) 1858: Brick arch: II* Carried the Stockton and Darlington Railway across Howns Gill. Closed 1969. Hungerford Bridge: near Charing Cross railway station, London: 1864: Steel truss: Imberhorne Viaduct: East Grinstead, West Sussex: 210 m (690 ft) 1882: Brick arch: II
Imberhorne Viaduct is a Grade II listed railway viaduct located in East Grinstead, West Sussex, South-East England.Closed in 1958, the structure was brought back into use as part of the preserved Bluebell Railway heritage line in 2013, allowing trains to continue to East Grinstead railway station.
Approximately 10 million bricks were needed to build the viaduct. The brickwork is red and brown, with yellow brick dressings. [2] [12] The wartime reconstruction used blue brick, [12] a darker type often used for heavy-duty construction. The 26 narrower arches are round-headed, whereas the wider span across Preston Road is elliptical. Each ...
It consists of a single arch in red brick with stone dressings, but the original design has been modified. An inscribed keystone was obscured when a footway was added to the north side of the bridge in 1888, and cast iron balustrades replaced the original brick balustrades when the bridge was reconstructed in 1932. [13]
Pevensey, East Sussex: 280s The outer curtain wall is the remains of the Roman fort called Anderitum. Cardiff Castle: Cardiff, Wales c. 290: The outer curtain wall incorporates sections of the Cardiff Roman Fort. Newport Arch: Lincoln: 3rd century Intact arch of the former Roman gate. Part of the Roman fortifications around Lindum Colonia ...
An eighteenth century stone and brick bridge with two arches carries Chithurst Lane over the river. [38] The River Rother at Cowdray Ruins. Continuing eastwards, the river is crossed by Iping Bridge at Iping, a narrow stone bridge with five arches dating from the seventeenth century. [39] To the west of the bridge is the site of Iping watermill.
The remains of one of the first Augustinian priories in England, founded about 1100. Built in flint and reused Roman brick, the church displays massive circular pillars and round arches and an elaborate west front. It was later damaged during the Civil War siege of 1648. St John's Abbey Gate, Colchester: Gatehouse: c. 1400 Mostly complete