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Eustace Bridge — Leeson Street

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Eustace Bridge — Leeson Street
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Single-arch humpbacked granite bridge, dated 1791, carrying road over Grand Canal. Segmental-arch with granite voussoirs, projecting impost and paviors. Ashlar granite parapet walls with projecting stringcourse to east and west, surmounted by raked granite coping with iron tie-bars and terminated by curved rubble limestone walls with matching coping, rendered to south-east. Circular carved Portland limestone plaques, centrally set over arches to outer parapets, inscribed 'Eustace Bridge 1791’. Cast-iron pipes flanking east and west of bridge, c. 1870 by Neville Parke, and c. 1907 by Ross & Walpole respectively. That to east sprung from red brick walls laid to English garden wall bond with flush red brick corner quoins and granite coping, flanked by rubble limestone walls and surmounted by grey brick parapet with matching coping. Round-headed pipe openings to parapet with red brick voussoirs supported on cast-iron plinths over engaged cast-iron columns. Mild-steel railings abut to south-west side of bridge.

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