Bridge Number 70 Wems Bridge
BRIDGE NUMBER 70 WEMS BRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176455
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Number 70 Wems Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE NUMBER 70 WEMS BRIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176455
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Number 70 Wems Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE NUMBER 70 WEMS BRIDGE
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:
- BRIDGE NUMBER 70 WEMS BRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Adderley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 66992 39393
Details
SJ 63 NE ADDERLEY C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL
6/11 Bridge No. 70 (Wems - Bridge)
GV II
Canal bridge. Circa 1830. Thomas Telford and Alexander Easton engineers. Limewashed red brick with some blue brick dressings. Elliptical arch. Humped-back shape with chamfered stone string course and parapet with square end piers and rounded stone coping. Slightly battered and curved abutments. Cast-iron corner posts on towpath side with grooves caused by rope haulage. Oval cast-iron number plate to south. This stretch of the 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. The bridge spans the canal below the fourth lock in the Adderley flight. Charles Hildfield, The Canals of the West Midlands, pp. 183-9.
Listing NGR: SJ6699239393
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260314
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hadfield, C, The Canals of the West Midlands, (1985), 183-9
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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