St Pinnock Viaduct
ST PINNOCK VIADUCT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1137633
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- St Pinnock Viaduct
- Statutory Address:
- ST PINNOCK VIADUCT
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1137633
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- St Pinnock Viaduct
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST PINNOCK VIADUCT
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:
- ST PINNOCK VIADUCT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Pinnock
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 17774 64625
Details
SX 16 SE ST PINNOCK
4/100 St Pinnock Viaduct -
- II Railway Viaduct, 1854-5 by I K Brunel. Heightened in 1882. 7 piers of roughly dressed, coursed slatestone from Westwood quarry. At 60 foot approx. centres. Each consisting of 8 buttresses with weatherings rising to form 5 stages with pointed openings piercing the 4 upper stages. Batter of about 1 in 100. In 1882 the piers were heightened with a slightly cruder, tapering, sixth stage and iron girders were used to replace Brunel's timber trestles. The 2 track railroad of 1882 and later carried on rivetted plate steel girders with steel guardrails and refuges to the north side. 633 feet in length and 151 feet in height, the tallest viaduct in Cornwall. One of a series of viaducts in quick succession on Brunel's Plymouth to Truro GWR line, opened in 1859. A Todd & P Laws Industrial Archaeology of Cornwall, 1972 A Pugsley (ed) The Works of I K Brunel 1980 R J Woodfin The Cornwall Railway 1972
Listing NGR: SX1980162658
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 60601
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Todd, , Laws, , Industrial Archaeology of Cornwall, (1972)
Pugsley, A, The Works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, (1980)
Woodfin, R J, The Cornwall Railway, (1972)
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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