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The Iron Bridge, Culford Park | |
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 The Iron Bridge (June 2020) | |
| Coordinates | 52°18′05″N 0°40′46″E / 52.301266°N 0.679499°E , |
| OS grid reference | TL888704 |
| Carries | Pedestrian traffic |
| Locale | Culford Park near Bury St Edmunds |
| Owner | Culford School |
| Heritage status | Grade I listed |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Single arch bridge |
| Material | Cast iron |
| Width | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
| Longest span | 60 ft (18 m) |
| No. of spans | 1 |
| Piers in water | 0 |
| History | |
| Designer | Samuel Wyatt |
| Fabrication by | Hawks and Co of Gateshead |
| Construction cost | est.£3,000 |
| Opened | c.1803-1804 |
| Location | |
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The Iron Bridge is an early cast iron bridge crossing a man made lake in grounds of Culford Park in the village of Culford near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Built for Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Marquess Cornwallis the owner of Culford Park in 1803-4, it is a unique example of a cast iron bridge built to the patent of Samuel Wyatt. The rib castings feature stiff and efficient oval tubular sections and is of exceptional interest as one of the earliest bridges with an unmodified cast-iron structure to survive. It is the earliest known example with hollow ribs leading to the structure received a grade I listing on 15 May 1996.[1]
Design
On 10 June 1800 Samuel Wyatt patented a new design for ...constructing bridges, warehouse, and other builds without the use of wood... which was published in the Repertory of Arts and Manufactures: Vol.14 in 1801. The patent describes how to construct a bridge using hollow pieces of cast iron in a longitudinal direction
- ^ "THE IRON BRIDGE AT CULFORD SCHOOL, Culford - 1269105 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2020.