Railway bridge
Railway bridge, Fall Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134539
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Railway bridge
- Statutory Address:
- Railway bridge, Fall Lane
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134539
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Railway bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- Railway bridge, Fall Lane
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:
- Railway bridge, Fall Lane
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 06898 23519
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 6 May 2021 to remove superfluous source details and reformat the text to current standards
SE 0623-0723
13/68
SOWERBY BRIDGE
FALL LANE
Railway Bridge
II
Railway bridge. c1840, parapet rebuilt. By George Stephenson. For the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company. Rock-faced stone. The bridge rises to the southern bank. Three tall segmental arches with voussoirs aligned to courses. Stepped canted pilaster buttresses. Ashlar band and tooled cyma-section band below parapet which has flat ashlar coping and pyramidal capstones above buttresses. At south end parapet continues as ramped wall. At north end parapet continues as wall terminating in pier as buttresses. The first part of the Manchester to Leeds Railway was opened as far as Sowerby Bridge in 1840; the section to Leeds; was opened subsequently.
Listing NGR: SE0689823519
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339209
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sowerby Bridge Chamber of Trade and Commerce Official Tourist Guide, (1985)
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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