Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Bridge on garden path
Springvale, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B1
- Grade
- B1
- Type
- Bridge
- Date of listing
- 20 December 1976
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- Bridge on garden path, Ballywalter Park, Springvale, Ballywalter, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2PP
- Townland
- Springvale
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.53481, -5.49379
- Date of survey
- 11 November 1997
- HB reference
- HB24/04/030
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 3 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1794 "Sheet 55. (Cary's England, Wales, and Scotland)." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Small picturesque sandstone bridge of c.1850 by Charles Lanyon, spanning a stream within the Ballywalter Park estate. This bridge is situated roughly 100m west of Ballywalter Park House (less than a mile south of the village of Ballywalter) and is partly covered in ivy.
The bridge has a segmental arch c.1.5m wide with vermiculated voussoirs and eroded (possibly lionhead) decorative keystones. There are vermiculated quoins to the bases of the end piers also (now partly obscured by greenery) and a cornice runs from the piers over the crown of the arch. The balustrade forms the parapet and has a decorative pierced design between sturdy panelled end piers and a smaller centre pier. Inner face of central pier has shell motif. Piers have blocking stones above cornice.
Historical information
This bridge was designed by Charles Lanyon and was probably constructed c.1850 at the same time as Lanyon extend and remodelled the main house for the estate’s new owner, Andrew Mulholland.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS/6/3/12/1 OS maps, Down 12, 1834
2 PRONI VAL/1B/39 First valuation, Ballywalter, c.1834-38
3 PRONI VAL/2B/3/9 Second valuation, Ballywalter, c.1859
4 PRONI OS/6/3/12/2 OS maps, Down 12, 1860
5 PRONI VAL/12B/23/6a-f Annual valuation revision books, Ballywalter, 1866-1929
Secondary sources
1 Lord Dunleath et al, 'Ballywalter Park' (Belfast, UAHS, 1985)
2 Alistair Rowan, "Ballywalter Park, Co. Down- I, II" in 'Country Life', vol.CXLI, No.3652, 2nd March 1967, pp.456-60: No.3653, 9th March 1967, pp.516-20
3 J.A.K. Dean 'The Gate lodges of Ulster- a gazetteer', (Belfast, 1994) p.63
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
F. Structural System
J. Setting
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
V. Authorship
X. Local Interest
Evaluation
Small picturesque sandstone bridge of c.1850 by Charles Lanyon, spanning a stream within the Ballywalter Park estate.
Nearby in the register
- Culvert face and bridgeBridgeunder 1 mi
- StableyardStablesunder 1 mi
- Ballywalter Park House & garden wallingCountry Houseunder 1 mi
- The AlbanyEstate Related Structuresunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.