Walls and Plaques to Former Sluice on River Granta West of Parish Church of St Mary
WALLS AND PLAQUES TO FORMER SLUICE ON RIVER GRANTA WEST OF PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127654
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Walls and Plaques to Former Sluice on River Granta West of Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- WALLS AND PLAQUES TO FORMER SLUICE ON RIVER GRANTA WEST OF PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127654
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Walls and Plaques to Former Sluice on River Granta West of Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALLS AND PLAQUES TO FORMER SLUICE ON RIVER GRANTA WEST OF PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
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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:
- WALLS AND PLAQUES TO FORMER SLUICE ON RIVER GRANTA WEST OF PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Abington
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 52656 49225
Details
LITTLE ABINGTON TL 5249 Walls and two plaques to former 9/213 sluice on river Granta west of Parish Church of St Mary
II
Sluice walls and two plaques dated 1721. Limestone plaques, local stock brick wall. Originally sited on opposite banks each plaque is inscribed 'The bottom or lowest part of this stone is the height of ye Floodgate of this sluce 1721'. The original three-sluice dam and new cut were part of a scheme for flooding the water meadows between Abington and Babraham, designed and partly executed by Hugh May (1621) in c.1654 for his cousin Thos Benet of Babraham. A law suit in c.1720 against John Benet by Thos Westernerequired a flood gate to be erected to prevent flooding in Abington. A new cut further south in the C19 possibly made the C17 sluice redundant, and it is possibly then that the two plaques were sited on the south bank wall.
V.C.H. Vol. VI, p.25 C.R.O. Account of C17 Water Meadow.
Listing NGR: TL5265649225
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52008
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 25
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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