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© Mr Alan Bradley LRPS
IoE Number:
385608
Location:
JOCK'S BRIDGE OVER WEIRS FROM RIVER WEAR AT RIVER GAUNLESS JUNCTION, 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:
23 May 1994
Grade
II
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BISHOP AUCKLAND
NZ2130SW AUCKLAND CASTLE PARK
634-1/8/92 Jock's Bridge over River Gaunless
06/05/86 near confluence with River Wear
(Formerly Listed as:
AUCKLAND CASTLE PARK
Jock's Bridge over weirs from River
Wear at River Gaunless junction)
GV II
Bridge carrying public road to Binchester over River Gaunless
near confluence with River Wear. South parapet forms part of
Auckland Castle Park boundary wall. Dated 1819. For Bishop
Shute Barrington. Coursed rubble with ashlar arch and
dressings. Elliptical arch has raised keystones, the west
inscribed SD (Shute Dunelm) 1819, and is flanked by shallow
pilasters, those on east at junction with Castle Park wall.
Dripstring above arch on each face, and on west face at road
bed level.