Building record 1342200000 - Penn/Loudwater Viaduct

Penn or Loudwater Viaduct built between 1902 and 1906 as part of the Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway route between Northolt and Bicester (Aynho). A 3-arch bridge of local red brick with contrasting blue brick voussoirs and dressings with semi-elliptical arches, projecting corbelled refuges and solid piers with square corners, stepped brick imposts and no plinths, designed in the Great Western Railway house style (the decorative design variation was apparently made at the insistence of the landowner, Sir Philip Rose), probably by GWR's civil engineering department under James Inglis (GWR Chief Civil Engineer until 1903) and built by Pauling & Co. of Westminster. Span of arches is about 8.5m and max height of arches is 17.5m (B1).