Macclesfield Canal Pool Lock Aqueduct and Footbridge
MACCLESFIELD CANAL POOL LOCK AQUEDUCT AND FOOTBRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1188456
- Date first listed:
- 22-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Macclesfield Canal Pool Lock Aqueduct and Footbridge
- Statutory Address:
- MACCLESFIELD CANAL POOL LOCK AQUEDUCT AND FOOTBRIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1188456
- Date first listed:
- 22-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Macclesfield Canal Pool Lock Aqueduct and Footbridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- MACCLESFIELD CANAL POOL LOCK AQUEDUCT AND FOOTBRIDGE
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:
- MACCLESFIELD CANAL POOL LOCK AQUEDUCT AND FOOTBRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Church Lawton
- District:
- Newcastle-under-Lyme (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kidsgrove
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ8300154914
Details
SJ 85 SW
5/58
KIDSGROVE C.P.
MACCLESFIELD CANAL
Pool Lock Aqueduct and footbridge-
II
Aqueduct and footbridge. Dated 1828. Red brick (English bond) with stone
parapet string and stone coped parapet. Low segmental arch spanning
the Trent and Mersey Canal with rusticated ashlar surround. The abutments
sweep forward and are terminated by wide pilaster buttresses with squat
pyramidal caps. Over the arch is a stone panel bearing the inscription
"POOL LOCK / AQUEDUCT / MDCCCXXVIII". On top of the aqueduct, spanning
the Macclesfield Canal is a footbridge: red and blue brick abutments
and cast iron bridge and balustrade. The Macclesfield Canal was opened
in 1831: the engineer was William Crosley. Charles Hadfield,The Canals
of the West Midlands 3rd edition (1985).
Listing NGR: SJ 83001 54914
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 273342
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hadfield, C, The Canals of the West Midlands, (1985)
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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