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Revision as of 13:33, 21 January 2021

Building summary
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Name Fish Pond Bridges
Address
Postcode
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]
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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