Avon Viaduct
AVON VIADUCT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1034898
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Avon Viaduct
- Statutory Address:
- AVON VIADUCT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1034898
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Avon Viaduct
- Statutory Address 1:
- AVON VIADUCT
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- AVON VIADUCT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Rugby (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brandon and Bretford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 40962 76083
Details
SP47NW
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BRANDON AND BRETFORD
BRANDON
Avon Viaduct (that part in Brandon and Bretford C.P)
II
Railway viaduct. c.1835. Brick faced with rusticated sandstone ashlar with
strongly projecting moulded string course, and coped parapet. 9 elliptical
arches and 6 narrower subsidiary round arches have rusticated voussoirs. Canted
piers between each arch. Larger piers between main and subsidiary arches and to
ends have octagonal caps. 2 subsidiary arches to west are bricked up and largely
hidden by the embankment. Built for the London and Birmingham Railway.
(Thomas Roscoe: The London and Birmingham Railway, c.1838, pp.116-117 and Plate
XII).
Listing NGR: SP4096276083
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 308790
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Roscoe, T, The London and Birmingham Railway, (1838), 116-117
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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