Chiswick Bridge
Chiswick Bridge and attached balustrades
Grade: II Listed: 26/09/2002
London Borough of Hounslow
Arched road bridge, 1930-33. Engineer Alfred Dryland with Herbert Baker as consulting architect, and giving the bridge its distinctly Georgian character. Mass concrete footings and abutments; reinforced concrete arches of cellular construction; cladding of Portland stone. Like Twickenham Bridge it is 70 ft. wide between the parapets; three spans, the centre being 150 ft. and the shore arches 125 ft.; one c60 ft. roadway arch on each bank. Pedestrian access to broad pavement by handsome brick stairs; riverside walkway spanned by arches which on the Hounslow side provide storage for boat club. On line of piers a polygonal viewing platform has been provided to each side. The centre span is the longest concrete arch of any bridge spanning the Thames
Sources:
Phillips, Thames Crossings, 1981, 174-9;
Roads and Road Construction, June 1932, VI, 170-1;
Engineer, 1933, CLVI, 17;
Engineering, June 1932, CXXXIII, 665
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