Listed Building record MDO325 - Cornford Bridge, Bishops Caundle

A bridge taking the road over the river Caundle. The bridge incorporates 15th-century features but was extensively repaired in the 18th century and later. It is built of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, and has three pointed arches with rubble piers between.

A 15th century with 3 spans, extensively repaired in the 18th century. The roadway is less than 10ft wide. <1> <4>

See photograph. <2>

A stone-built bridge with three pointed arches and two pointed cutwaters; it has pedestrian refuges on the upstream side. In good condition. <5>

National Record of the Historic Environment, 199541 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<1> Jervoise, E, 1930, The Ancient Bridges of the South of England, 79 (Monograph). SWX3998.

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 08-AUG-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1962 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 69161205) Cornford Bridge (NAT)

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 15 (Monograph). SDO146.

‘(2) CORNFORD BRIDGE (69171204), of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, carries the road to Holwell across the Caundle Brook about ¾ m. S. of the village. The bridge was extensively repaired in the 18th century and later but it incorporates 15th-century features. The three segmental-pointed arches have voussoirs laid in two orders. Between the arches are rubble piers; on the upstream or W. side these have cut-waters with ashlar facing, probably of the 18th century; on the E. side the S. pier has a coursed rubble cut-water while the N. pier retains a mediaeval weathered buttress of three stages above a rough plinth. The upstream cut-waters support refuge niches. The rubble parapets are capped with bevelled coping-stones except at one point where a hollow-chamfered mediaeval coping-stone is used.’

<5> Phillips, A S, Various, Field Investigators Comments ASP, F2 ASP 04-NOV-77 (Unpublished document). SWX3817.

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