Victoria Bridge
VICTORIA BRIDGE, SEVERN VALLEY RAILWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1100657
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- VICTORIA BRIDGE, SEVERN VALLEY RAILWAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1100657
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- VICTORIA BRIDGE, SEVERN VALLEY RAILWAY
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:
- VICTORIA BRIDGE, SEVERN VALLEY RAILWAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wyre Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kidderminster Foreign
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 76665 79254
Details
KIDDERMINSTER FOREIGN CP SEVERN VALLEY RAILWAY S077NE 5/90 Victoria Bridge - II* Half of this structure lies in the parish of Upper Arley. Railway bridge. 1859-1862 by John Fowler, engineer, for the Severn Valley Railway Company. Cast-iron and rusticated sandstone ashlar. Main span is a segmental arch composed of 4 ribs each formed from 9 H-section cast-iron pieces bolted together. The track above is supported by a network of iron struts. The rusticated ashlar abutments have plain parapets and are each pierced by a segmental arch of blue brick with a moulded string course at springing level. The tow path is on the west bank between the abutment and the river, on the east bank the abutment wall extends down into the river. A painted inscription, repeated in identical wording on each side of the bridge reads: 'Victoria Bridge/1861/John Fowler, Engineer' to the centre. To the left: 'Messrs. Brassey & Co., Contractors.' To the right: 'Cast and erected by the Coalbrookdale Company'. L S Snell (editor) Essays towards a History of Bewdley (n d), p 79.
Listing NGR: SO7666579254
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157080
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Snell, L S, Essays towards a History of Bewdley, (), 79
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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