Murtry Aqueduct
MURTRY AQUEDUCT, MURTRY BOTTOM
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174214
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Murtry Aqueduct
- Statutory Address:
- MURTRY AQUEDUCT, MURTRY BOTTOM
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174214
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Murtry Aqueduct
- Statutory Address 1:
- MURTRY AQUEDUCT, MURTRY BOTTOM
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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:
- MURTRY AQUEDUCT, MURTRY BOTTOM
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Selwood
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Elm
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 76228 49783
Details
ST74NE GREAT ELM CP MURTRY BOTTOM 7/161 Murtry Aqueduct (previously listed in Buckland Dinham and Selwood Civil Parishes) 29.4.83
- II
Former aqueduct carrying disused canal over Mells River. Aqueduct. C 1795. Doulting stone, sandstone coping to parapets. Three arch span, supporting channel c 12 m wide and 1.75 m deep, and with c 17m run of retaining wall to the East, on the South side of aqueduct. Flat segmental arches with clear span c 6.1 m and rise c 1.5 m with triple projecting keystones and y-jointed voussoirs tapered in depth from crown to springing-point, set in rusticated spandrels under flat projecting string. Above the string plain ashlar parapet c 1.7 m deep, coped with heavy sandstone blocks with rounded saddleback profile moulded to outer face only. Between arches, trianglular cutwaters and at ends of walling and between arches, v-jointed ashlared pilasters carried through full height. Maximum overall lenght of parapet on South side c 38 m, and on North side c 21.5 m; river width c 20 m. This is one of very few structures remaining on a branch of the proposed Dorset and Somerset Canal which was begun in the last decade of the C18, but abandoned in 1803. Murtry Aqueduct is a good quality design with some architectural pretension; at the time of the survey, the arches, spandrels and abutments appeared to be sound, apart from the loss of some voussoir stones at the cutwaters. The parapet walling also looks sound, but the proposed channel is filled with earth and growing undergrowth and trees. (Robin Atthill, Old Mendip, pages 165-177, 1971; Kenneth Clew, The Dorset and Somerset Canal, 1971).
Listing NGR: ST7622849783
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 267107
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Clew, K, The Dorset and Somerset Canal, (1971)
Athill, R, Old Mendip, (1971), 165-177
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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