Cowley Bridge
COWLEY BRIDGE, COWLEY BRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1164147
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Cowley Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- COWLEY BRIDGE, COWLEY BRIDGE ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14733/18
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1164147
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Cowley Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- COWLEY BRIDGE, COWLEY BRIDGE ROAD
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:
- COWLEY BRIDGE, COWLEY BRIDGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Upton Pyne
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 90733 95502
Details
UPTON PYNE
290/3/59 COWLEY
30-JUN-61 COWLEY BRIDGE
II*
UPTON PYNE COWLEY
SX 99 NW
3/59 Cowley Bridge
30.6.61
- II*
Road bridge across the River Exe. 1813-14. By James Green, Civil Engineer and
Surveyor for the County of Devon. Ashlar span of 3 segmented arches; pilasters
between arches with round-headed niches below parapet, and small recessed panels
above. Dentilled band at road level, and coped parapet. Voussoirs are of
Thorverton stone, as are the abutments to either end, and these contrast nicely
with the red sandstone of the main structure. Low cutwaters. Cowley Bridge was
built to replace a 12-arched bridge at the joint expense of the County of Devon and
the Chamber of Exeter in the mayoralities of B W Johnson Burnes Pitch and John
Flour Esquires. This information, together with the date of the laying of the
first stone (22nd June 1813) is recorded on 2 inscription panels facing each other
on the parapet. The bridge cost £9,000 and is Green's most important bridge.
Sources: [1] NMR; typescript article, James Green, civil engineer, 1781-1849, County Bridge Surveyor of Devon, 1808-1841 by A B George. [2] Buildings of England, p. 410.
Cowley Bridge spans the River Exe and is partly in the City of Exeter and partly in Upton Pyne parish.
Listing NGR: SX9073395502
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86110
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
George, A B, James Green Civil Engineer 1781-1849 County Bridge Surveyor of Devon, ()
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989)
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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