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| English Heritage Reference: | 203518 |
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| RBKC Reference: | 68/8 |
| Property: | BATTERSEA BRIDGE (THAT PART IN KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA) |
| Street: | BATTERSEA BRIDGE , SW3 |
| Date: | 07/04/1983 |
| Grade: | II |
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| Description: | By J W Bazalgette 1890. Of 5 spans of unequal radii rising to a distinct central apex. The cutwaters of the piers are stone-faced with channelled rustication. Each pier supports a stone pilaster rising to road level. Wrought iron spans spring from the piers, their outer margins swept back in concave section and ribbed. The spandrels carry iron panels with foliated decoration in flat relief. Above the spans a cornice breaking round the stone pilasters marks the line of the road. It supports above each pilaster a stone pedestal with swept cornice and between each 2 pedestals an iron balustrade. This is composed of coupled colonnettes from which spring stilted arches. (Southern half of bridge is in Borough of Wandsworth). |
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