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 Grade One 

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 29/09/1965 

 The Bridge 

 St. Ives 

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 Circa 1415 to 1426 replacing a wooden bridge of 1110. Barnack Ashlar with brick parapet of circa 1716. Six arches on piers with pointed cutwaters carried up to the parapets to form refuges. Four original northern arches are pinted but the two semicircular southern ones were rebuilt in 1716, replacing a Civil War drawbridge over the southernmost span. 

 The bridge is of six spans of varying breadth faced with Barnack Ashlar, with a brick parapet and stone coping. It is said to have been built in the 14th Century or early 15th Century, but the southernmost of the two arches were rebuilt in 1716 by Charles, 1st Duke of Manchester whose son widened the wharf in 1724. The brick parapet of the 18th Century and was probably rebuilt at the same time as the southern arches. The bridge rises appreciably in the middle and the axis of the southern half is deflected considerably towards the east. The cutwaters to the piers are carried up to form triangular refuges by the side of the roadway except for the second pier from the north where the cutwares are splayed back above the water level onto a square face and the refuges above are of semi-hexagonal form. The middle pier on the east side prijects far into the river and above it was built the chapel of St Ledger. The four original arches are each two centred with chamfered edges, double chamfered labels, and five chamfered ribs on the soffit. The fourth arch from the north has been refaced on the west side and has a plain key stone. The southernmost arches are each semi circular and have plain voussoirs and soffits. There is a continuous moulded string above the arches, below the brick parapet. 

Map showing the general location in St Ives