Blaydon Burn, Blaydon Burn Bridge

HER Number:
3435

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Blaydon Burn, Blaydon Burn Bridge

Place:
Blaydon Burn

Map Sheet:
NZ16SE

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:
Road Transport Site

Site Type: Specific:
Road Bridge

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
The bridge was erected in 1778, replacing an earlier ford, and still survives largely complete below the 1936 road bridge. It was built of sandstone ashlar, approximately 0.75m x 0.19m x 0.25m, probably obtained locally, if not from one of the quarries actually on Blaydon Burn. The stones are dressed with a rusticated face and drafted margin and features a single arch, and parapets with chamfered copings and settings for iron railings. On the south eastern side of the bridge was a carved circular stone capping the end of the bridge parapet, this had been removed on each of the other corners. There was some structural evidence that the bridge has been widened to the north.

Easting:
1805

Northing:
6356

Grid Reference:
NZ18056356

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 3435 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 2