TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL BRIDGE NUMBER 137 (HALL'S BRIDGE) AT SJ 8159 5622

BRIDGE NUMBER 137 (HALL’S BRIDGE) AT SJ 8159 5622, TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1115841
Date first listed:: 05-Jul-1994
List Entry Name:: TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL BRIDGE NUMBER 137 (HALL'S BRIDGE) AT SJ 8159 5622
Statutory Address:: BRIDGE NUMBER 137 (HALL’S BRIDGE) AT SJ 8159 5622, TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1115841
Date first listed:: 05-Jul-1994
List Entry Name:: TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL BRIDGE NUMBER 137 (HALL'S BRIDGE) AT SJ 8159 5622
Statutory Address 1:: BRIDGE NUMBER 137 (HALL’S BRIDGE) AT SJ 8159 5622, TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BRIDGE NUMBER 137 (HALL’S BRIDGE) AT SJ 8159 5622, TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Church Lawton
National Grid Reference:: SJ 81586 56221

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/01/2013

SJ 85 NW 1923- /7/10004

CHURCH LAWTON TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL Bridge number 137 (Hall's Bridge) at SJ 8159 5622

(Formerly listed as Bridge No. 137 at SJ 8159 5622)

GV II

Canal accommodation bridge. East span circa early C19 with west span added/bridge remodelled circa early 1830's when Locks No. 49 were duplicated, probably by Thomas Telford. Red brick and brindled brick with stone coping and dressings. Towpath to west span. Integral with adjoining pair of locks. Both spans have elliptical arches. Swept wings/roving arms with trailing edges to south elevation and west side of north elevation. Central pier to south side. East span has stone/stone slab quoins to arch, and west span has stone quoins/voussoirs. Stone string course and plaque at crown to both arches on both sides. Minor repairs. The Trent and Mersey Canal was built between 1766 and 1777 by James Brindley and Hugh Henshall with subsequent alterations. Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands (1966) Jean Lindsay, The Trent and Mersey Canal (1979)

Listing NGR: SJ8158656221

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Legacy System number:: 351203
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Lindsay, J, The Trent and Mersey Canal, (1979)
Hadfield, C, 'The Canals of the British Isles' in The Canals of the East Midlands, (1966)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.