Catalogue description Colour prints of photographs of Conway Bridge, Park Place, Remenham, Wokingham

This record is held by Royal Berkshire Archives

Details of D/EX 1763
Reference: D/EX 1763
Title: Colour prints of photographs of Conway Bridge, Park Place, Remenham, Wokingham
Date: 2002
Held by: Royal Berkshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 1 bdl.
Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented in June 2002 (acc. 7018).
Administrative / biographical background:

[Conway Bridge (also known as Dank Archer and Ragged Archer), was built in 1763 and designed by Thomas Pitt, first Lord Camelford (Colvin) engineer, (and) Reverend Humphrey Gainsborough, brother of Thomas Gainsborough. Carrying the Henley to Wargrave road, the bridge is a single arch of cycloplan blocks in imitation of rockwork through which can be seen the River Thames. The rockwork of the bridge and approach walls is said to have come from Reading Abbey. It was built for General Conway of Park Place.]

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