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Mitchellstown Bridge

Location Mitchellstown Road,, NAGAMBIE VIC 3608 - Property No B6849 File Number B6849 Level State

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Statement of Significance

What is significant? Mitchellstown Bridge is a 14 span timber & steel road bridge with timber beams/stringers & steel universal beam/RSJ relieving beams. It has a maximum span length of ten metres, a deck 120 metres long, has timber piers and cross-heads, round-timber corbels and stringers, timber cross-beams and longitudinal decking with timber kerbs, and timber side rails.
It was opened in 1895, and is intact, except for the replacement of the original transverse-timber deck with a modern longitudinal-timber motor deck.
How is it significant? Mitchellstown Bridge, is historically, technically, socially and aesthetically significant at the State level.
Why is it significant? Mitchellstown Bridge is historically significant as one of Victoria's oldest surviving colonial timber road bridges, and as one of only two known surviving Victorian road bridges to have been built during the 1890s Depression, when major public works construction virtually ceased.
Mitchellstown Bridge is technically significant as a very rare example of a colonial Victorian road bridge that still retains a full corbel-and-stringer superstructure base along with historic (albeit much-patched) timber piers.
Mitchellstown Bridge is socially significant, being situated in an important recreational area, in tourist and fishing country between the popular Mitchelton and historic Chateau Tahbilk vineyards.
Mitchellstown Bridge is aesthetically significant, as an attractive timber structure located in a floodplain shaded by numerous large river red gums, and approached from the nearby Goulburn Valley Highway by country roads lined with grey box trees.
Classified: 06/11/1998