COPLEY VIADUCT LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY COPLEY VIADUCT

COPLEY VIADUCT, WAKEFIELD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1313729
Date first listed:: 18-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: COPLEY VIADUCT LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY COPLEY VIADUCT
Statutory Address:: COPLEY VIADUCT, WAKEFIELD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1313729
Date first listed:: 18-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: COPLEY VIADUCT LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY COPLEY VIADUCT
Statutory Address 1:: COPLEY VIADUCT, WAKEFIELD ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY COPLEY VIADUCT

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:: COPLEY VIADUCT, WAKEFIELD ROAD
Statutory Address:: LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY COPLEY VIADUCT

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 08184 22784

Details

SOWERBY BRIDGE LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE SE 02 SE RAILWAY, Copley 3/108 - Copley Viaduct GV II Railway viaduct crossing the River Calder, the Calder and Hebble Navigation and Wakefield Road. c1851. For the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company. Snecked rock-faced sandstone. 23 arches in all on tall piers: 15 semicircular, with rock- faced voussoirs brought to course and 4 at each end, wider, segmental, with similar voussoris in Ashlar. Easternmost arch over Wakefield Road considerably flatter. Plain band at impost and cornice level with parapet above. Mostly in the parish of Halifax. The Sowerby bridge to Halifax Branch line was opened 1 January 1852. Sowerby Bridge Chamber of Trade and Commerce Official Tourist Guide, p.25

Listing NGR: SE0818422784

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Legacy System number:: 339250
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Sowerby Bridge Chamber of Trade and Commerce Official Tourist Guide, (1985), 25

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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.