The Chinese Bridge
The Chinese Bridge, The Causeway, Godmanchester
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1128661
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- The Chinese Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- The Chinese Bridge, The Causeway, Godmanchester
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1128661
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- The Chinese Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Chinese Bridge, The Causeway, Godmanchester
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:
- The Chinese Bridge, The Causeway, Godmanchester
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Godmanchester
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 24436 70584
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 April 2023 to amend the description and reformat the text to current standards
TL 2470
4/71
Godmanchester
THE CAUSEWAY (west side)
The Chinese Bridge
29.5.69.
GV
II*
Dated 1827, architect Gallier but reconstructed in facsimile 1960; the wooden bridge was replaced in 2010. Single span footbridge of which the parapet is of solid gault brick with stone coping at either end, and between is entirely timber of a Chinese Chippendale character, hence the bridge's name.
Listing NGR: TL2443670584
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 53517
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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