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Listed building outline: STOPHAM BRIDGE STOPHAM ROAD PULBOROUGH C784

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STOPHAM BRIDGE STOPHAM ROAD PULBOROUGH C784

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-0.535794 50.955760,-0.535831 50.955713,-0.535757...
• entry-date: 2004-02-16
• listed-building: 1226929
• name: STOPHAM BRIDGE STOPHAM ROAD PULBOROUGH
• reference: C784
• start-date: 1955-03-15
• description: This is partly in former Chanctonbury Rural District & partly in former Petworth Rural District, as the River Arun,which it spans, is the boundary between them. There is considerable diversity of opinion about the age of this bridge. T W Horsfield's History of Sussex says that it was built in 1309. A A Evans in an article in the Sussex County Magazine in 1936 (Vol 10) gives the date as 1423. E Jervoise's Ancient Bridges of the South of England says that the original bridge was built in 1347 & that the present structure is a replacement dating from the C16. the correct date is probably 1422-3. One span was destroyed in the Civil War & replaced by a drawbridge. This was fenced in 1650. The centre arch was raised in 1822 & has this date on it. It is built of ironstone & consists of a high segmental arch in the centre & 2 lower round- headed ones on each side. There are blunt cutwaters between the arches. These are continued above the water level on the south side as half hexagonal buttresses & form recesses of this shape for pedestrians on the Bridge. On the north side the cutwaters are continued the whole height of the bridge as cutwaters & form triangular recesses on the Bridge. The Bridge was badly damaged by Army lorries during the war but has been repaired since. A.M.