The canal is infilled for a short distance above the bridge which is used as a car park for the adjacent Daneway Inn.
Construction
Daneway Bridge is a standard Thames & Severn Canal Company designed bridge where the towpath changed sides. It seems to have been originally built of stone but radically repaired in brick. The bricks are handmade and of a dark red colour, laid to a fairly irregular English bond.
The bridge has a segmental arch springing from wedge-shaped stone springers and is protected by a simple projecting drip mould. The wing walls are built with an inward ‘batter’ and curve outwards from the arch to end in pilaster terminals.
The parapet structure is contiguous with that of the wing walls and spandrels rather than being of a separate construction. The parapet is level over the arch and then slopes gently down in a straight line on either side to the ends of the wing walls; it is topped by a plain stone coping.
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