BRUCE TUNNEL, EAST PORTAL

BRUCE TUNNEL, EAST PORTAL, SAVERNAKE ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1194523
Date first listed:: 13-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: BRUCE TUNNEL, EAST PORTAL
Statutory Address:: BRUCE TUNNEL, EAST PORTAL, SAVERNAKE ROAD

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Date:: 1999-09-26
Reference:: IOE01/00363/01
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1194523
Date first listed:: 13-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: BRUCE TUNNEL, EAST PORTAL
Statutory Address 1:: BRUCE TUNNEL, EAST PORTAL, SAVERNAKE ROAD

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:: BRUCE TUNNEL, EAST PORTAL, SAVERNAKE ROAD

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Burbage
National Grid Reference:: SU 23779 63118

Details

BURBAGE SAVERNAKE ROAD SU 26 SW 2/50 Bruce Tunnel, East Portal II

Portal to Bruce Tunnel on Kennet and Avon Canal. 1810. Red brick in English bond with stone coping. Concave on plan, with pointed parabolic arch of 45cm brick. Large slate slab set over entrance on paired slate corbels, inscribed: The KENNET AND AVON Canal Company / Inscribe this TUNNEL with the name of / B R U C E / In Testimony of their GRATITUDE / for the uniform and ....... support of / The Right Honourable THOMAS BRUCE EARL OF AILESBURY / and CHARLES, LORD BRUCE, his son / through the whole progress of this great National Work / by which direct communication by Water was opened / between the Cities of LONDON and BRISTOL / ANNO DOMINI 1810. Slate inscription in need of repair and consolidation at time of survey, January 1987.

Listing NGR: SU2377963118

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Legacy System number:: 312259
Legacy System:: LBS

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