BRIDGE NUMBER 71 MASSEY'S BRIDGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176460
Date first listed:: 04-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE NUMBER 71 MASSEY'S BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: BRIDGE NUMBER 71 MASSEY'S BRIDGE

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Date:: 1999-09-28
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176460
Date first listed:: 04-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE NUMBER 71 MASSEY'S BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: BRIDGE NUMBER 71 MASSEY'S BRIDGE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BRIDGE NUMBER 71 MASSEY'S BRIDGE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Adderley
National Grid Reference:: SJ 66938 39660

Details

SJ 63 NE ADDERLEY C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL

6/13 Bridge No. 71 - (Massey's Bridge)

GV II

Canal Bridge. Circa 1830. Thomas Telford and Alexander Easton, engineers. Limewashed red brick with some blue brick dressings. Elliptical arch: Humped-back shape with chamfered stone string and parapet with square end piers and rounded stone coping. Slightly battered and curved abutments. Cast-iron corner posts on towpath side with grooves caused by rope haulage. Oval cast-iron number plate to south. This stretch of the canal was built as part of the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal (act passed 1826, opened 1835) which was absorbed by the Ellesmere and Chester Canal in 1845 and eventually became part of the Shropshire Union in 1846. The bridge spans the canal below the second lock in the Adderley flight. Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands, pp. 183-9.

Listing NGR: SJ6693839660

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Legacy System number:: 260316
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hadfield, C, The Canals of the West Midlands, (1985), 183-9

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.