CHIRKBANK BRIDGE (BRIDGE NUMBER 21)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1367369
Date first listed:: 02-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: CHIRKBANK BRIDGE (BRIDGE NUMBER 21)
Statutory Address:: CHIRKBANK BRIDGE (BRIDGE NUMBER 21)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1367369
Date first listed:: 02-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: CHIRKBANK BRIDGE (BRIDGE NUMBER 21)
Statutory Address 1:: CHIRKBANK BRIDGE (BRIDGE NUMBER 21)

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:: CHIRKBANK BRIDGE (BRIDGE NUMBER 21)

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District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Weston Rhyn
National Grid Reference:: SJ 29203 37119

Details

WEST0N RHYN C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL SJ 23 NE 1/107 Chirkbank Bridge (Bridge No. 21) II Canal bridge. Circa 1800 on William Jessop's and Thomas Telford's Ellesmere Canal. Uncoursed limestone rubble abutments with ashlar string course and parapet. Cambered arch with stone lintel and projecting keystone has cast-iron ribs to soffit; retangular corner piers with shallow pyramidal capping. Cast-iron plate numbered "21" on east side. This section of the Ellesmere Canal was opended in 1801 to link Chirk with Welsh Frankton. Charles Hadfield, Canals of the West Midlands (3rd edn. 1985) p.173 A. Black- wall, Historic Bridges of Shropshire (1985) pp. 58-9.

Listing NGR: SJ2920337119

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 255821
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Blackwall, A, Historic Bridges of Shropshire, (1985), 58-9
Hadfield, C, The Canals of the West Midlands, (1985), 173

Legal

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