Cock’s Bridge
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| Bridge Name: | Cock’s Bridge | |||
| No.: | 46 | |||
| Location: | North of Ilminster 336250/116457 | |||
| Build Date: | 1834 | |||
| Engineer: | Designed by Richard Carver, County Architect and Surveyor, built by R.Mears. | |||
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| Description: | ||||
| Road bridge over river Isle. Lias stone cut and squared, Ham stone dressings. Segmental arch with ashlar voussoirs, nearly 10 metre span, vermiculated keystone; band course at road level; shallow flat-topped parapet with plain chunky coping; on west parapet a full depth stone is dated 1834; ends of parapet curl through right angle to rectangular stop piers.1
This bridge and Twinney Bridge was constructed for 375 pounds sterling2 English Heritage Listed Building Number: 264034. First Listed on 22/04/1981. Collinson states one mile north of Hort Bridge there is a bridge of two arches called Cox Bridge which is repaired at the expense of the free Grammar School in Ilminstersup>3/p> |
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| References: | 1. Somerset HER Ref: No.56623 2. Somerset Roads the Legacy of the Turnpikes – Western Division – J B Bentley & B J Murless 3. The history and antiqutities of the county of Somerset (1791)- Collinson |
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