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| HER Number | MWB16561 |
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| Record Type | Monument |
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| Name | Station Road underbridge, Pangbourne |
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Summary
Grade II listed underbridge by Brunel, where Station Road runs under the Great Western Railway
Associated Legal Designations or Protected Status
- Listed Building (II) 1214420: RAILWAY UNDERBRIDGE AT SU 6336 7663
Monument Type(s):
Full Description
Railway underbridge. Circa 1840, by I.K. Brunel. Red brick with string course, parapet,and slightly projecting battered abutments. 3 chamfered skew arches. Central vehicular arch flanked by smaller pedestrian arches. This is one of the original bridges built for the Great Western Railway. <1>
Station Road Underbridge is described as a well preserved example from the Pioneering Phase of railway construction <3>. Although the revised Pevsner Guide <2> comments that it was widened in 1893 with plate girders, later replaced with concrete beams, in fact the second bridge was built alongside it and the Brunel-designed underbridge has escaped alteration<3>.
Sources and further reading
| <01> | Department of the Environment. 1974-2000?. DOE List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Unpublished document / SWB10006] |
| <02> | Tyack, G, Bradley, S and Pevsner, N. 2010. The Buildings of England (Berkshire). p422-3. [Monograph / SWB147855] |
| <03> | Alan Baxter & Associates LLP. 2012. Great Western Main Line Route Structures Gazetteer. WBC Network. MLN1 4137. [Unpublished document / SWB148447]
https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/gwml-gazetteer/ (Accessed 21/12/2015) |
Related Monuments
| MWB6024 | GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY - General record within West Berkshire (Monument) |
| MWB6044 | TILEHURST TO PANGBOURNE STATION RAILWAY LINE (Monument) |
Associated Excavations and Fieldwork
| EWB1265 | History and Significance of the Great Western Main Line |
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