SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL BRIDGE NUMBER 48 (PARK HEATH BRIDGE)

Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1175932
Date first listed:
25-Feb-1987
Statutory Address:
SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL BRIDGE NUMBER 48 (PARK HEATH BRIDGE)

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Location

Statutory Address:
SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL BRIDGE NUMBER 48 (PARK HEATH BRIDGE)

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

District:
Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Cheswardine
National Grid Reference:
SJ 73139 27519

Details

CHESWARDINE C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL SJ 72 NW 8/10 Bridge no. 48 - (Park Heath Bridge)

- II

Canal bridge. Circa 1830. Thomas Telford and Alexander Easton, engineers. Dressed red sandstone with tooled ashlar dressings. Elliptical arch with voussoirs and flush keystone. Flat string course, and parapet with square end piers and rounded coping. Slightly battered and curved abutment. Cast-iron corner posts on towpath side with grooves caused by rope haulage. This stretch of canal was built as part of the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal (act passed 1826, opened 1835), which was absorbed by the Ellesmere and Chester Canal in 1845 and eventually became part of the Shropshire Union in 1846. Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands, pp. 183-9; Thomas Fellow and Paul Bowen, The Shroppie. A portrait of the Shropshire Union Canal.

Listing NGR: SJ7313927519

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
260160
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hadfield, C, The Canals of the West Midlands, (1985), 183-9
Pellow, T, Bowen, P, The Shroppie A Portrait of the Shropshire Union Canal

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

End of official listing

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