Sankey Viaduct Over Sankey Brook
SANKEY VIADUCT OVER SANKEY BROOK, BRADLEY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1075927
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Sankey Viaduct Over Sankey Brook
- Statutory Address:
- SANKEY VIADUCT OVER SANKEY BROOK, BRADLEY LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1075927
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-May-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Sankey Viaduct Over Sankey Brook
- Statutory Address 1:
- SANKEY VIADUCT OVER SANKEY BROOK, BRADLEY LANE
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:
- SANKEY VIADUCT OVER SANKEY BROOK, BRADLEY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- St. Helens (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- District:
- Warrington (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Burtonwood and Westbrook
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ5687694716
Details
The asset was previously listed twice also under List entry 1230621, in the district of Warrington. This entry was removed from the List on 25th February 2016.
455/9/25
03-FEB-66
NEWTON LE WILLOWS
BRADLEY LANE
SANKEY VIADUCT OVER SANKEY BROOK
(Formerly listed as:
SANKEY VIADUCT OVER SANKEY BROOK (THAT PART IN ST HELENS DISTRICT) and SANKEY VIADUCT OVER SANKEY BROOK (THAT PART IN WARRINGTON DISTRICT)
Also Formerly listed as:
BRADLEY LANE
SANKEY VIADUCT (OVER ST HELEN'S CANAL AND THE SANKEY BROOK))
I
Railway viaduct, 1830, by George Stephenson for the Liverpool
and Manchester Railway Company. Yellow sandstone and red
brick, of 9 round-arched spans on sharply-battered piers.
Rusticated ashlar faces, stone-banded brick jambs. Plinths
of 3 steps. One projecting band on each jamb. Plain, square
imposts. Heavily moulded cornices carry stone parapets with
plain square caps; a corbelled square pilaster on each pier
carries the cornice. Battered, curved abutments of brick
have stone quoins at inner ends.
Listed Grade I as the earliest major railway viaduct in the
world; in form and expression it presages the slightly later
and hence more assured Dutton and Vale Royal viaducts by
George Stephenson and Joseph Locke, carrying the former Grand
Junction Railway over the Weaver valley.
Part of this viaduct is in Cheshire.
Reasons for Designation
Sankey Viaduct over Sankey Brook (that part in St Helens district), an 1830 railway viaduct by George Stephenson, is designated at Grade I for the following principal reasons:
* Date: Constructed in 1830 it is of international significance being the earliest major railway viaduct in the world.
* Innovation: It acted as a model for George Stephenson and Joseph Locke's later viaducts at Dutton and Vale Royal, which carry the former Grand Junction Railway over the Weaver valley.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 216315
- 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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