Belmont Viaduct
BELMONT VIADUCT, RIVER WEAR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120726
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Belmont Viaduct
- Statutory Address:
- BELMONT VIADUCT, RIVER WEAR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120726
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Belmont Viaduct
- Statutory Address 1:
- BELMONT VIADUCT, RIVER WEAR
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:
- BELMONT VIADUCT, RIVER WEAR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Framwellgate Moor
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 29764 44969
Details
BELMONT RIVER WEAR NZ 24 SE 6/18 Belmont Viaduct
II
Railway viaduct. 1856 for Auckland branch of North Eastern Railway. Builder Cail of Newcastle. Speech by Cail gives'Mr. Hodgson' as the engineer for the branch. Rock-faced sandstone, some from Rudchester, and brick, with ashlar dressings and cast-iron tie-rods. 130 ft. high; 8 segmental arches, on tapered piers with impost bands, have stepped voussoirs and brick soffits. 3 tallest arches, 2 in river and one on east shore, have apsidal cutwaters. Low wall in same materials in southernmost arch; corresponding arch on north not inspected. 4 tallest arches have elliptical cast iron tie-ends above voussoirs, with star-shaped ribs. Bull-nosed parapet on top cornice continues round paired wide pilasters at each end, with low pyramidal coping. An important landscape feature. Source: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne,Vol.1, No. 18, for 1856; Newcastle 1915 reprint of Gateshead 1858, p.137.
Listing NGR: NZ2976444969
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110008
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, Vol. 1, (1856)
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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