KINGSGATE BRIDGE

KINGSGATE BRIDGE, RIVER WEAR

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1119766
Date first listed:: 29-May-1998
List Entry Name:: KINGSGATE BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: KINGSGATE BRIDGE, RIVER WEAR

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1119766
Date first listed:: 29-May-1998
List Entry Name:: KINGSGATE BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: KINGSGATE BRIDGE, RIVER WEAR

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: KINGSGATE BRIDGE, RIVER WEAR

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: City of Durham
National Grid Reference:: NZ 27593 42106

Details

NZ 24 SE DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE RIVER WEAR 1914/6/10001 Kingsgate Bridge

GV I

Footbridge over river. 1963. Ove Arup and Partners (Ove Arup, engineer). Reinforced concrete; concrete made with white cement and Shap granite and surfaces grit blasted. Consists of two trough shaped lengths of deck, each supported by V shaped legs on single support at base of V. Halves constructed on banks and rotated about base support to meet over middle of river. Connected by bronze expansion joints in the parapets which are in fonn of a T and a U turned through 90 degrees and interlocking, said to symbolise connection of Town and University. Deck drained by water spouts at regular intervals, which give rhythm to the elevations. Tops of parapets shaped for structural reasons and to provide surface comfortable to the touch. This dramatic, beautifully detailed and ingenious bridge was designed by Sir Ove Arup personally and was commissioned by the University of Durham. Civic Trust Award 1965. Winner, Concrete Society Certificate ofOutstandingPerfonnance (Mature Structures Category) 1993. [Concrete Quarterly, January-March 1964]

Listing NGR: NZ2759342106

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Legacy System number:: 469295
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Concrete Quarterly' in January-March, (1964)

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