Gas Works Bridge, Over River Calder
GAS WORKS BRIDGE, OVER RIVER CALDER, MEARCLOUGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184757
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Gas Works Bridge, Over River Calder
- Statutory Address:
- GAS WORKS BRIDGE, OVER RIVER CALDER, MEARCLOUGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184757
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Gas Works Bridge, Over River Calder
- Statutory Address 1:
- GAS WORKS BRIDGE, OVER RIVER CALDER, MEARCLOUGH 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:
- GAS WORKS BRIDGE, OVER RIVER CALDER, MEARCLOUGH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 06708 23672
Details
SOWERBY BRIDGE MEARCLOUGH ROAD SE 0623-0723 (north side, off) 13/130 - Gas Works Bridge, over River Calder - II Bridge. 1816, widened mid C19. By Aydon and Elwell, Shelf Ironworks, Bradford. For Messrs Thos Fearnside & Son of Mearclough Bottom Mill. Cast iron and steel, stone abutments. Single wide segmental cast-iron arch rising from stone abutment walls and supported at each end by 4 curved braces. Widened in steel mid C19, the face of the bridge is of steel panels bolted together and rising in centre; above are railings formed of standards supporting 3 round-sectioned rails. A cast-iron date plaque removed from the bridge and now displayed in Bankfield Industrial Museum, Halifax, records the date of construction, the founders and for whom it was built. This is reported to be the earliest remaining cast-iron bridge in Calderdale and similar castings were used by the same firm for the high-level bridge at Scarborough.
Listing NGR: SE0670823672
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339271
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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