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Monument details

HER Number:TR 04 NW 112
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:WYE BRIDGE

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1638 to 1881

Summary from record TR 04 NW 38 :

Built 1638, altered 1881

Grid Reference:TR 0486 4692
Map Sheet:TR04NW
Parish:WYE WITH HINXHILL, ASHFORD, KENT

Monument Types

  • BRIDGE (BRIDGE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • SITE (Post Medieval - 1638 AD to 1881 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II*) 1234208: WYE BRIDGE

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 0446 0456 WYE BRIDGE STREET (west end)
8/197 Wye Bridge 13.10.52
GV II*
Bridge. 1638, repaired 1684 and altered 1881. Stone, with iron roadway. Five round headed arches with 2 V-shaped pointed cutwaters up and down stream, the parapet removed 1881 when the cantilevered iron roadway was laid. Stone recording its building by the Country 1638 and repair:- 1684 now in Church of St Gregory and St Martin.
Listing NGR: TR0486446920

Description from record TR 04 NW 38 :
(TR04804692) Wye Bridge [NAT] (1)

Wye Bridge. Bridge 1638, repaired 1684 and altered 1881. Stone with iron roadway. Five round headed arches with 2 V-shaped pointed cutwaters up and down stream, the parapet removed 1881 when the cantilevered iron roadway was laid. Stone recording its building by the country 1638 and repair-1684 now in Church of St Gragory and St Martin. (Listed Grade II*) [Full archaeological description] (2)

Stone Bridge with V-shaped cut-waters almost hidden under a widened roadway. (3)

Building survey undertaken by Canterbury Archaeological Trust in 2003 prior to bridge widening. Test pits to the south of the bridge noted a distinct lack of finds, which is unusual considering the river has been crossed at this point since the medieval period. The subsequent watching brief during bridge widening observed elements of the C19 and C20 bridge alterations. (4)


<1> OS 1: 2500 (OS Card Reference). SKE48135.

<2> DOE (HHR) District of Ashford, 16 February 1989 (88) (OS Card Reference). SKE40479.

<3> Bldgs of Eng; North East and East Kent, 1983, 507 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE38108.

<4> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2005, Wye Bridge, Wye, Kent. Building Recording, Archaeological Evaluation, and an Archaeological Watching Brief Made Ahead of, and During, the Repair and Widening of Wye Bridge in 2003 (Unpublished document). SKE17138.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: OS 1: 2500.
<2>OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) District of Ashford, 16 February 1989 (88).
<3>OS Card Reference: Bldgs of Eng; North East and East Kent, 1983, 507 (J Newman).
<4>Unpublished document: Canterbury Archaeological Trust. 2005. Wye Bridge, Wye, Kent. Building Recording, Archaeological Evaluation, and an Archaeological Watching Brief Made Ahead of, and During, the Repair and Widening of Wye Bridge in 2003.