Design for the Garret Hostel bridge, Cambridge
William Chadwell Mylne, FRS (London 1781– Amwell 1863)
Category
Architecture / Drawings
Date
1834
Materials
Pen and ink with coloured wash
Measurements
360 x 488 mm
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206327
Summary
William Chadwell Mylne, FRS (London 1781– Amwell 1863). Design for the Garret Hostel bridge, Cambridge, 1834, inscribed 'William Chadwell Mylne, Engineer, New River Head, London 1834', pen and ink with coloured wash (360 x 488mm). Howard Colvin mentions that William Chadwell Mylne designed the old cast iron Garret Hostel Bridge in Cambridge which was replaced in 1960. Nineteenth century photographs of the bridge clearly show the bold gothic detailing, such as the quatrefoils on the piers and the pronounced 'zigzag' of the pierced balustrade, which can be seen in this drawing. There is one other design in the collection for an ornamental cast iron cattle bridge (NT 206243), dating from circa 1842, which suggests that there may have been an interest in introducing such structures to the estate, alongside H.E. Kendall's improvements to the house and other buildings.
Provenance
Charles Philip Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke (1799 - 1873); bequeathed by Elsie Kipling, Mrs George Bambridge (1896 – 1976), daughter of Rudyard Kipling, to the National Trust together with Wimpole Hall, all its contents and an estate of 3000 acres.
Marks and inscriptions
Bottom right: William Chadwell Mylne, Engineer / New River Head, London 1834
Makers and roles
William Chadwell Mylne, FRS (London 1781– Amwell 1863), architect
References
Adshead 2007: David Adshead, Wimpole Architectural drawings and topographical views, The National Trust, 2007, p.155, appendix Colvin, H. M. A biographical dictionary of English Architects, 1660-1840 1954., p.578