The Chinese Bridge

The Chinese Bridge, The Causeway, Godmanchester

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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:: The Chinese Bridge, The Causeway, Godmanchester

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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 53517
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.