Scotswood, Harold Street, underbridge

HER Number:
16125

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Scotswood, Harold Street, underbridge

Place:
Scotswood

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:
Railway Transport Site

Site Type: Specific:
Railway Bridge

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
Underbridge which carried the Station Approach from the east end of the former Harold Street beneath the Newcastle and Carlisle line as it approached Scotswood Bridge. Its supporting walls are of massive snecked rough-faced stone, with an ashlar band, hollow-chamfered on its lower angle, immediately below the cast-iron superstructure. The superstructure of the bridge has a series of four rectangular panels on each face each with a raised border with inturned quadrants at the corners

Easting:
2010

Northing:
6383

Grid Reference:
NZ20106383

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
The Archaeological Practice Ltd.,2008, Scotswood Housing Expo, Newcastle upon Tyne, Historic Buildings Recording