Shrewsbury Canal, Longdon Aqueduct (Aqueduct on the Shrewsbury Canal) Shrewsbury Canal, the Aqueduct of the Shrewsbury Canal
SHREWSBURY CANAL, LONGDON AQUEDUCT (AQUEDUCT ON THE SHREWSBURY CANAL)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1037006
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Shrewsbury Canal, Longdon Aqueduct (Aqueduct on the Shrewsbury Canal) Shrewsbury Canal, the Aqueduct of the Shrewsbury Canal
- Statutory Address:
- SHREWSBURY CANAL, LONGDON AQUEDUCT (AQUEDUCT ON THE SHREWSBURY CANAL)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1037006
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Shrewsbury Canal, Longdon Aqueduct (Aqueduct on the Shrewsbury Canal) Shrewsbury Canal, the Aqueduct of the Shrewsbury Canal
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHREWSBURY CANAL, LONGDON AQUEDUCT (AQUEDUCT ON THE SHREWSBURY CANAL)
- Statutory Address 2:
- SHREWSBURY CANAL, THE AQUEDUCT OF THE SHREWSBURY CANAL
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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:
- SHREWSBURY CANAL, LONGDON AQUEDUCT (AQUEDUCT ON THE SHREWSBURY CANAL)
- Statutory Address:
- SHREWSBURY CANAL, THE AQUEDUCT OF THE SHREWSBURY CANAL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Telford and Wrekin (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Rodington
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 61755 15640
Details
LONGDON UPON TERN Longdon Aqueduct (Aqueduct 1. on the Shrewsbury Canal) 5362 (Formerly listed 'The Aqueduct of the Shrewsbury canal') SJ 61NW 22/445 30.3.71
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2. Built in 1795 and designed by Thomas Telford. Although said to be the first cast iron aqueduct to be built, the one at Holmes on the Derby Canal was completed one month before Telford's. Part of the Shropshire Union Canal, it carries the Shrewsbury Branch over the River Tern. It is an iron trough, square in section, supported on iron uprights with diagonal bracing. Along the south side of the trough is a tow path with plain iron railings. Sandstone and brick abutments at each end with round arches through, the east abutment has corner buttresses. The abutments appear to be the remains of the former aqueduct which was destroyed in floods early in 1795. Scheduled A.M.
Listing NGR: SJ6175515640
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 362298
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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