Featherstone Bridge
FEATHERSTONE BRIDGE, BRIDGE END
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1045293
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Featherstone Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- FEATHERSTONE BRIDGE, BRIDGE END
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- Reference:
- IOE01/09959/28
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1045293
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Featherstone Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- FEATHERSTONE BRIDGE, BRIDGE END
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:
- FEATHERSTONE BRIDGE, BRIDGE END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Featherstone
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 67571 61896
Details
FEATHERSTONE BRIDGE END NY 66 SE (North side) 15/91 Featherstone Bridge 10/6/52 (formerly listed as Bridge over South Tyne River) II*
Single-track road bridge over River South Tyne, c.1775. Tooled ashlar sandstone. Both faces similar: single c.25-metre wide segmental arch with flush voussoirs, arch band and triple keystone. Arch, flanked by wide slightly-projecting piers, rests on side walls with chamfered plinths and top bands. Parapet defined by wide band and projecting chamfered coping. Horizontal section of parapet extends beyond keystone before raking down to south. Parapet terminates at projecting end piers with pyramidal caps. Plaque above keystone on inner face of west parapet inscribed: FEATHERSTONE BRIDGE. Curving walls on north end of parapet; splayed walls on south end.
(E. Jervoise, The Ancient Bridges of the North of England, 1973).
Listing NGR: NY6757161896
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 240695
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jervoise, E, The Ancient Bridges in the North of England, (1931)
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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