Listed Building record MDO6239 - Walford Bridge, West Borough, Wimborne Minster

An early sixteenth-century bridge widened on the east in the eighteenth century. The bridge has seven pointed arches with keystones and stone pointed cutwaters. Brick parapet with stone coping with, on the west side a pointed pedestrian niche, the east side is plainer and has no pedestrian niche.

The remodelling of 1802 was to the design of William Evans of Wimborne. <1>

Early C16th widened on East in C18th. <4>

<1> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 468 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1974 (Map). SDO17396.

(SU 00950064) Walford Bridge (NR)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 85 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(4) WALFORD BRIDGE (00950064), of squared rubble and brick with ashlar dressings, carries the road to Cranborne across the R. Allen on seven arches. The W. side has six segmental-pointed arches with large chamfered voussoirs springing from cut-water piers with pyramidal capping, except the central cut-water which supports a pedestrians' refuge; these features appear to be of the 17th century and probably correspond with Quarter Sessions orders of 1666–7 (D.C.R.O.). The seventh and northernmost arch is semicircular and probably was added in 1802 when W. Knott and W. Stainer of Wimborne undertook extensive repairs (contract, D.C.R.O.); the projecting keystones in the 17th-century arches and the brick parapets are also of this period. The E. side of the bridge, with shallow segmental ashlar arches, brick spandrels and a plain brick parapet with ashlar coping, appears to date from the 19th century.'

<4> DOE (HHR), 1987, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Wimborne District amendment October 1987 (Scheduling record). SDO17473.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213183 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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