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© Mr Alan Bradley LRPS
IoE Number:
385607
Location:
DRIVE BRIDGE OVER RIVER GAUNLESS, AUCKLAND CASTLE PARK
BISHOP AUCKLAND, WEAR VALLEY, DURHAM
Photographer:
Mr Alan Bradley LRPS
Date Photographed:
31 May 2002
Date listed:
06 May 1986
Date of last amendment:
06 May 1986
Grade
II
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BISHOP AUCKLAND
NZ2130 AUCKLAND CASTLE PARK
634-1/8/93 Drive bridge over River Gaunless
06/05/86
GV II
Bridge over River Gaunless carrying driveway from Park Head to
Auckland Castle (qv). Dated 1757. For Bishop Richard Trevor.
Coursed squared sandstone lower courses, rubble above, with
ashlar arch and dressings. Recessed keyed segmental arch with
dripmoulds. North keystone inscribed RD (Richard Dunelm) 1757.
Abutments and parapets have chamfered ashlar coping. In the
course of building this bridge, workmen discovered `a Roman
urn of greyish clay ... filled with earth and human bones'.
(Mackenzie E: County Palatine of Durham: Newcastle: 1834-:
294).