SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL BEWLEY'S BRIDGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1138817
Date first listed:: 24-Feb-1971
List Entry Name:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL BEWLEY'S BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL BEWLEY'S BRIDGE

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Date:: 2000-07-21
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1138817
Date first listed:: 24-Feb-1971
List Entry Name:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL BEWLEY'S BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL BEWLEY'S BRIDGE

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:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL BEWLEY'S BRIDGE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 41235 75922

Details

ELLESMERE PORT & NESTON SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL SJ 47 NW 3/49 Bewley's Bridge 24.2.71 - II 1795 single-span brown brick bridge over canal (Thomas Telford, Superintending Engineer). Elliptical arch between battered abutments, curved in plan. Curving 2-course brick bands at road level. Flush chamfered stone copings to parapet walls. Yellow stone quoins at base of west abutment. Repairs in hard red brick to parapets and south face of west abutment. Retaining wall of heavy sandstone blocks supports towpath.

Listing NGR: SJ4123575922

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Legacy System number:: 56311
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.