Fish Pond Bridges
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| Name | Fish Pond Bridges |
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| Date | 1897 |
| OS grid ref | NO 24710 7443 |
| Latitude & longitude | 56°15′13″N 3°13′00″W |
| Listing | Category B |
| Listing reference | LB31351 |
These two bridges are located at each end of the pond near the East Lodge of the Falkland designed landscape. One of them carries the path leading up to the Memorial Chapel. The other is not really a bridge but exists as two separate ornamental arches either side of the East Lodge.
| HES listing details[1] |
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| Address/Site Name
House of Falkland Estate, fishpond bridges and cascade |
| Description
1897. Pair of small, semi-circular-arched ornamental bridges with concave, open balustrades and circular terminal piers with conical caps; forming inlet and outlet to fishpond and situated close to East Lodge. Random rubble to arch, spandrels and walls; stone ashlar to parapets. Parapets with decorative urn balusters and square-plan piers. Bridge to E with single parapet. Semi-circular rubble cascade to E. |
| Statement of special interest
These distinctive, ornamental bridges sit next to the East Lodge (see separate listing) at the entrance to House of Falkland Estate and are a critical part of the entrance approach to the Estate. [...] |
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