Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
3087
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/10/1990
Date of Amendment
22/08/2003
Name of Property
Footbridge over lake at Machen House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Newport
Community
Graig
Town
Newport
Locality
Lower Machen
Easting
322676
Northing
188032
Street Side
Location
Some 65m SW of the house in Lower Machen. Machen House is set in its own grounds beside the Parish Church.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Picturesque landscape feature to gardens laid out as setting for Machen House, built 1831 for the Rev C.A.S. Morgan, and part of a very unusual miniature landscape garden with Gothic features to outside walls, servants' accommodation and beebole. The bridge however is hardly Gothic and seems in form if not detail to be based on the Chinese willow-pattern bridge
The bridge spans the S end of a small ornamental lake, one of two in the garden.
Exterior
Footbridge, rock-faced rubble stone with squared stone dressings, of 3 arches, slightly humped with narrow footway. Arches are segmental-curved and shallow with cut stone voussoirs and separated by tiny triangular-section shafts on corbels extended up to the low parapets. Parapets are splayed out at ends, copings are of tooled stone and end at piers with small pyramidal caps. Pyramidal caps also on parapets over the dividing shafts.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as an attractive stone bridge designed as a picturesque landscape feature in a remarkable small landscaped garden.
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