List of longest masonry arch bridge spans

The masonry arch bridges of stone or brick are the most genuine of arch bridges, some lasting a thousand years. Because they are made of worked stone, there is a slight chance they might even stand without mortar, like the Pont du Gard aqueduct. Yet arch bridges using rough hewn stones like Changhong Bridge need mortar to stand. Arches with a core of reinforced concrete covered by facade stone for decoration are not to be included in this list, the load-bearing part of the arch should be cut stone or brick, or as follows, unreinforced concrete.

In a closed spandrel stone arch bridge the hollow space can be filled with rubble and loose material. It can also be filled with concrete, in which case the filling itself becomes able to bear load in addition to the load carried by the ring of voussoirs. If the voussoir stones are thin they cannot take much weight so instead it is the concrete filling that becomes the structural part of the arch. The next step is to remove the voussoir stones completely, or only use them as facade stones. An unreinforced concrete arch is technically a masonry arch that use only very small stones, that is the aggregate of the concrete, sand and gravel. Such an arch would not stand without mortar.

Some modern bridges are built masonry style with precast concrete blocks, like Gladesville Bridge that has a span of 305 metres (1000 ft). These types are not in this list because their blocks are most likely made of reinforced concrete, that may make the assembled arch to have more in common with a modern reinforced concrete arch than a stone masonry arch.

The Maidenhead Railway Bridge may have the two longest arches made of bricks, .

Building new masonry arch bridges today is a solely Chinese business. There are 18 stone arch bridges with spans exceeding . There are probably several dozens of stone arches exceeding 40m in the Fujian province only. Almost all bridges were built after 1950.

This list contains the longest masonry arch spans ever built being at least .

RankNameSpanmetresSpanfeetNoteYear opened Location Country Ref1丹河大桥146 m479 ftConcrete deckJincheng, ShanxiDanhe Bridge, on HighestBridges.com2Wuchaohe Bridge乌巢河大桥120 m394 ftConcrete deckFenghuang County, Hunan3Jiuxigou Bridge九溪溝橋116 m381 ftConcrete deckFengdu County, Chongqing4Changhong Bridge长虹桥112 m367 ft Kaiyuan, Yunnan5Fushun Tuojiang Bridge富顺红旗大桥111 m364 ft Fushun County, Sichuan6Shengli Bridge108 m354 ft 7First Sizhuang Bridge108 m354 ft 8Xianfeng Aqueduct Bridge险峰渡槽106 m348 ft Ci County, Hebei9Huwan Bridge105 m344 ft Henan 10New Tongshan Bridge105 m344 ft 11First Danhe Bridge105 m344 ft 12Jiangpinghe Bridge105 m344 ft 13Yugong Bridge102 m335 ft 14Gongtan Bridge100 m328 ft 15Youduhe Bridge游渡河大桥100 m328 ft Jiangjin District, Chongqing16Hongdu Bridge红渡桥100 m328 ft Mashan County - Du'an County, Guangxi17Longwu Bridge100 m328 ft Guangxi 18Fujin Bridge100 m328 ft 19Jianjin Bridge100 m328 ft 20Daliushu Bridge100 m328 ft 21Jin-shan Bridge金山大桥99 m325 ft Hua'an County, Fujian22Xiaoduchuan Bridge现有红江桥97 m318 ft Enshi City, Hubei23 96 m315 ftUnreinforced concrete archesConcrete deckVilleneuve-sur-Lot, Lot-et-Garonne24 90 m295 ft Plauen, Saxony25Longmen Bridge龙门大桥90 m295 ftTwo 60-meter side spansLuoyang, Henan26Solkan Bridge85 m279 ftDestroyed in 1916Rebuilt in 1927Longest masonry arch railway bridgeNova Gorica, Goriška27Adolphe Bridge84 m276 ftConcrete deckLuxembourg City28Pont des Pierres80 m262 ftDestroyed in 1944Montanges, Ain29 79 m259 ft La Mure, Isère30Trezzo sull'Adda Bridge72 m236 ftDestroyed in 1416Trezzo sull'Adda, Lombardy31Steyrling Bridge70 m230 ft Steyrling, Upper Austria32 68 m223 ft Constantine, Constantine Province33Union Arch Bridge67 m220 ft Cabin John, Maryland34 66 m217 ft Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia35Veresk Bridge66 m217 ft Veresk, Mazandaran Province36Gutach Bridge64 m210 ft Lenzkirch, Baden-Württemberg37 64 m210 ftTamped concrete archKempten, Bavaria38 64 m210 ftTamped concrete archKempten, Bavaria39 64 m210 ft Peyrieu, Ain - La Balme, Savoie40 63 m207 ft Munich, Bavaria41 63 m207 ft Munich, Bavaria42Grosvenor Bridge61 m200 ft Chester, North West England 43 61 m200 ft Lavaur, Tarn44Pont du Gour Noir60 m197 ft Uzerche - Saint-Ybard, Corrèze45Wechselburg-Göhrer Bridge60 m197 ft Wechselburg, Saxony46 60 m197 ft Rennebu, Trøndelag47Huanghugang Bridge黄虎港大桥60 m197 ft Hupingshanzhen, Hunan48Wallstraßenbrücke57 m187 ftTamped concrete archDestroyed in 1945Ulm, Baden-Württemberg 49Skodje Bridge57 m187 ft Ålesund, Møre og Romsdal50Escot Viaduct56 m184 ft Escot, Pyrénées-Atlantiques51Ballochmyle Viaduct55 m180 ft Mauchline - Catrine, East Ayrshire52Wiesen Viaduct55 m180 ft Davos Wiesen, Grisons53 55 m180 ft Pélussin, Loire54Rabastens Bridge55 m(x2)180 ft(x2)Concrete deckRabastens - Coufouleux, Tarn55Pont de Vieille-Brioude54 m177 ftDestroyed many timesRebuilt in 1832 with 45 meters spanVieille-Brioude, Haute-Loire56 54 m177 ft Dombås, Innlandet57Yixiantian Bridge一线天桥54 m177 ftConcrete deckHanyuan County, Sichuan58Gignac Bridge50 m164 ft Gignac, Hérault59 50 m(x4)164 ft(x4)Destroyed during the World War IINogent-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne60Munderkingen Bridge50 m164 ftTamped concrete archDestroyed in 1945Munderkingen, Baden-Württemberg61 50 m164 ft Carry-le-Rouet, Bouches-du-Rhône62 50 m164 ft Treungen, Telemark63白沙大桥50 m(x2)164 ft(x2) Jiande, Zhejiang

List of longest masonry arch bridge spans

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