Inglis Bridge, Monmouth
The Grade II listed bridge crosses the River Monnow in the Monmouth suburb of Osbaston.
It is a Mark II Inglis Bridge, constructed in 1931, and is the only known example in Britain of an Inglis bridge still in public use.
The Inglis bridge was designed by Charles Edward Inglis. The bridge girders are assembled from tubular steel sections joined by cast steel nodes, and have a 90 ft span with a 9 ft 6 in wide deck. The girders are of the Warren truss type. The bridge cross members are rolled steel sections, lightened by holes cut in the webs.
Another Inglis bridge crosses the Basingstoke Canal at Aldershot, but it is not in public use. A 50 ft Mk. I bridge, formerly at RAF Sandtoft, was removed and partly reassembled in South Yorkshire, with a smaller section going to the Royal Engineers Museum at Gillingham, Kent [1] A replica Inglis Bridge was erected in a park in Leyland, Lancashire in 2016. Other Inglis bridges survive in Canada, Germany, Pakistan, and on the Simpson Reserve in New Zealand.
For more information, see Inglis Bridges.