COPLEY BRIDGE MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY COPLEY BRIDGE

COPLEY BRIDGE, WAKEFIELD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1184766
Date first listed:: 18-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: COPLEY BRIDGE MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY COPLEY BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: COPLEY BRIDGE, WAKEFIELD ROAD

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Date:: 1999-09-01
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1184766
Date first listed:: 18-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: COPLEY BRIDGE MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY COPLEY BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: COPLEY BRIDGE, WAKEFIELD ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY COPLEY 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: COPLEY BRIDGE, WAKEFIELD ROAD
Statutory Address:: MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY COPLEY BRIDGE

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

District:: Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 08170 22714

Details

SOWERBY BRIDGE MANCHESTER AND LEEDS SE 02 SE RAILWAY, Copley 3/129 - Copley Bridge - II Railway bridge over River Calder. c1840. By George Stephenson. For the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company. Regularly coursed rock-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings. 3 segmental arches. Plinths with roll mould to piers. Band at impost level. Rusticated voussoirs brought to course and expressed keystones. Simple cornice with parapet above. Curved ramped abutments. Partly in the parish of Halifax. The first part of the Manchester to Leeds railway was opened as far as Sowerby Bridge in 1840; the section to Leeds was opened subsequently. Sowerby Bridge Chamber of Trade and Commerce Official Tourist Guide, p25.

Listing NGR: SE0817022714

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Legacy System number:: 339274
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Sowerby Bridge Chamber of Trade and Commerce Official Tourist Guide, (1985), 25

Legal

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