Description

PERSHORE

SO9545 BRIDGE STREET
648-1/5/65 (East side (off))
11/02/65 Pershore Bridge (that part in
Pershore Civil Parish)
(Formerly Listed as:
BRIDGE STREET
(East side)
Pershore Bridge (Southern Section))

GV II*

Bridge. Probably late C15, remodelled C17 and C18. Stone piers
and arches; red brick parapet with deep saddleback stone
coping; some repairs in blue brick, mostly in English or
English Garden Wall bond.
5 main elliptical stone arches with voussoirs, the central
widest with keystone, also flood-arch with keystone at N end
and further angled flood-arch at S end. 5 cutwaters and 5
refuges on east side, none on west side. Parapet has double
dogtooth string-course at base; brick and stone end piers;
parapet curved at SE corner to accommodate abutment,
flood-arch and E approach, and extending S to border main
approach.
Central arch enlarged by William Sandys c1635 when Avon made
navigable from Tewkesbury to Stratford via Pershore, and
bridge further repaired/remodelled after damage in Civil War.
See also Wick CP.
(BoE: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-: 243;
Country Life: November 17 1960).

Listing NGR: SO9525445119

External Links

• Historic England Listing

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)