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© Mr Andrew Parslow
IoE Number:
263143
Location:
GREAT BOW BRIDGE (THAT PORTION IN LANGPORT CIVIL PARISH), BOW STREET
LANGPORT, SOUTH SOMERSET, SOMERSET
Photographer:
Mr Andrew Parslow
Date Photographed:
29 September 2002
Date listed:
17 April 1959
Date of last amendment:
17 April 1959
Grade
II
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LANGPORT CP BOW STREET
ST4126
10/78 Great Bow Bridge
(that portion in Langport C.P.)
17.4.59
- II
Road bridge over River Parrett. Completed 1841. Local lias stone ashlar. Three wide elliptical arches with impost
courses, and keystones to arches, band course over, then plain parapet, which is extended at each end into long wing
walls; centre of bridge gently humped. Bridge first mentioned in 1220, it was last rebuilt by the Parrett Navigation
Coapaoy, assisted by the corporation. (VCH Vol III, 1974).