Kildwick Bridge

KILDWICK BRIDGE, KEIGHLEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1167718
Date first listed:
10-Sept-1954
List Entry Name:
Kildwick Bridge
Statutory Address:
KILDWICK BRIDGE, KEIGHLEY ROAD
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1167718
Date first listed:
10-Sept-1954
List Entry Name:
Kildwick Bridge
Statutory Address 1:
KILDWICK BRIDGE, KEIGHLEY 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
KILDWICK BRIDGE, KEIGHLEY ROAD

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Kildwick
National Grid Reference:
SE 01115 45699

Details

SE 04 NW KILDWICK KEIGHLEY ROAD

1/16 Kildwick Bridge

10.9.54

GV I

Bridge. 1305 - 1313 for the monks of Bolton Abbey, widened on east side 1780, parapet and flanking walls repaired C19, strengthened 1961. Ashlar with gritstone rubble patching and repairs. 4 arches, pointed cutwaters. West side with medieval work has 2 pointed northern arches and 2 round arches to south. Chamfered voussoirs and 5 deep chamfered ribs to each arch. Projecting band at road level; ridged parapet coping. East side: 4 round arches, projecting band and parapet as west, shallow buttresses rising from the cutwaters. One of the earliest documented medieval bridges, work continuing from 1305 until 1313 with a break during 1311; costs to masons, carters, stone-breakers, are recorded and a lime kiln was constructed in 1308. The bridge carried the main routeway for monks from Bolton Abbey, across the River Aire towards Lancashire. E. Jervoise, Ancient Bridges in the North of England, 1931, p100. R. Mason, Telegraph and Argus, March 15, 1980, article.

Listing NGR: SE0111545699

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Legacy System number:
324743
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Jervoise, E, The Ancient Bridges in the North of England, (1931), 100
Telegraph and Argus in 15 March, (1980)

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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