076 INFRASTRUCTURE Left
With its slick steelwork, Tintagel Bridge successfully reinstates a connection lost around 500 years ago
Right, from top
Lille Langebro’s curved design connects the district of Nørrebro with Amagerbro, constructed in the wake of a cycling boom in Copenhagen, the bridge hosts cyclists and pedestrians.
CASE STUDY TINTAGEL BRIDGE, CORNWALL
Tintagel Bridge is a thing of beauty that deploys contemporary engineering technology to re-animate and reconnect a site of great historical significance. This slim, breathtaking, steel walkway over a gorge of 190ft, which was unveiled in Autumn 2019, reinstates a pathway that had been lost since the middle ages. The bridge follows the line of an original route, now vanished thanks to coastal erosion, which ran along a narrow strip of land between the 13th century gatehouse of Tintagel Castle on the mainland to a courtyard on the headland or island where the remains of the Castle sit, jutting out into the sea.
The original pathway was lost in the 15th or 16th century, but English Heritage, which manages the property, has brought it back to life with this footbridge of steel, local Cornish slate and oak. It was built in Plymouth and designed by Ney & Partner engineers and William Matthews Associates Architectural Practice. Two independent cantilevers of around 30m in length extend from each end, almost touching in the centre, but not quite: a 40mm gap has been designed in the middle, to represent the transition between mainland and island, the past and the present. Even without the bridge, Tintagel Castle welcomed 250,000 visitors a year, and it’s hoped that – post pandemic – those figures will return, or even be exceeded, safe in the knowledge that the congestion which often resulted from visitors having to double back along the cliff to get from gatehouse to castle, should be reduced. It is part of a wider £5m programme of footpath networks English Heritage has invested in to reduce the impact of visitors on the site’s delicate ecology and archeology. The bridge was made possible thanks to a donation of £2.5m from Julia and Hans Rausing. A further £5,000 was raised by members of the public, whose names are signed on the Cornish slate tiles which form the bridge’s walkway.
Client: English Heritage
Operation and maintenance: Ney & Partner engineers and William Matthews Associates Architectural Practice
Area span: 180m Cost: £5m Opened: August 2019
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