OLD TRAMWAY BRIDGE

OLD TRAMWAY BRIDGE, OLD TRAMWAY WALK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187828
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: OLD TRAMWAY BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: OLD TRAMWAY BRIDGE, OLD TRAMWAY WALK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187828
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 04-Apr-1994
List Entry Name:: OLD TRAMWAY BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: OLD TRAMWAY BRIDGE, OLD TRAMWAY WALK

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: OLD TRAMWAY BRIDGE, OLD TRAMWAY WALK

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

County:: Warwickshire
District:: Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:: Stratford-upon-Avon
National Grid Reference:: SP 20508 54798

Details

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2054 OLD TRAMWAY WALK 604-1/6/8 (North West side) 25/10/51 Old Tramway Bridge (Formerly Listed as: BANBURY ROAD, Bridgetown Old Tramway Bridge)

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Tramway bridge, now footbridge. 1823 with later parapets. John Rastrick, engineer; for Stratford and Moreton Tramway. Brick with ashlar dressings. 8 elliptical arches, that to south east end a flood arch, with piers on cutwaters to both sides. Ashlar-coped brick parapets. Built to carry a horse tramway from the Stratford Wharf to Moreton-in-Marsh. The tramway, which was originally intended to be extended to London, had a branch to Shipston-on-Stour. It was bought by the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway in 1847 and closed, except for the branch line, in 1881; details of history given on a restored truck (not included) preserved approx. 60m to north of bridge. The bridge is an important element in the landscape around the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. (Fogg N: Stratford-upon-Avon: Portrait of a Town: Chichester: 1986-: 120-4, 156, 167N; Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 416).

Listing NGR: SP2050854798

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

Legacy System number:: 366338
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Fogg, N, Stratford Upon Avon Portrait of a Town, (1986), 120-4 156
Fogg, N, Stratford Upon Avon Portrait of a Town, (1986), 167
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 416

Legal

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