Devils Bridge
DEVILS BRIDGE, BRIDGE ROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1086899
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Devils Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- DEVILS BRIDGE, BRIDGE ROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1086899
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Devils Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- DEVILS BRIDGE, BRIDGE ROW
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:
- DEVILS BRIDGE, BRIDGE ROW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirkby Lonsdale
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD6155578235
Details
The asset was previously listed twice also under List entry 1138104. This entry was removed from the List on 18 January 2017.
SD 67 NW
19/36
22.3.83
CASTERTON
BRIDGE ROW
(Kirkby Lonsdale CP)
Devil's Bridge
(Formerly listed as: Devil's Bridge (that part in Casterton CP))
I
Bridge. C15 or early C16. Ashlar and dressed stone. 3 triple-chamfered
segmental arches, that to east end smaller; 4 ribs to soffits. Piers have
triangular cutwaters to each side, rising to canted refuges; canted abutments.
String course with some waterspouts and coped parapet. Roadway approx. 4m
across. On north side of south parapet an inscription: "CASTERTON KIRK BY
LONSDALE" with arrows. At south side of east end a sundial; a square block on
octagonal shaft with 4 fillets, top has roll moulding and octagonal recess.
Lettering to front apparently reads: "N : CONSTABL C : LONSDALE WAR"; "FEARE GOD
HONER THE : 1673". Carried the Kendal to Skipton road until replaced by Stanley
Bridge, 150m to south, in 1930s. One of the finest medieval bridges in
England. See RCHM Westmorland. Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Listing NGR: SD 61555 78235
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 75615
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory Of Westmorland in Inventory Of Westmorland, (1936)
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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