Cloud Bridge, Stoneleigh
Image courtesy of William Arnold
Image courtesy of William Arnold
Image courtesy of William Arnold
Description of this historic site
Cloud Bridge, a red sandstone bridge built in the Imperial period to replace an earlier bridge. It crosses the Avon 1km southwest of Bubbenhall Bridge.
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Notes about this historic site
1 The ancient bridge of four arches [PRN 2858] stood immediately downstream of the existing one built in 1842.
2 The present bridge, of red sandstone with three elliptical arches, was built early in the 19th century to replace an earlier bridge.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
This is an elegant bridge and seeems to have needed no repair. The stonework which still shows the marks of the masons’ chiseling was probably not one of the local stones, which are not very resistant to weathering. The cutwaters are semicircular topped by half domes. The presence of the mock monastic gatehouse of Tantara Lodge, the entrance to Lord Leigh’s deer park, suggests that it was built to a high standard of elegance as part of general landscape considerations.
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