Five Arch Bridge
FIVE ARCH BRIDGE, NORTH CRAY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1188471
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Five Arch Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- FIVE ARCH BRIDGE, NORTH CRAY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1188471
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Five Arch Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- FIVE ARCH BRIDGE, NORTH CRAY 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:
- FIVE ARCH BRIDGE, NORTH CRAY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Bexley (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 48227 71880
Details
NORTH CRAY ROAD 1. 5005 (west side) North Cray TQ 47 SE 4/14 Five Arch Bridge II 2. 250 yds north-north-west of Church of St James. Circa 1781. Much rebuilt 5-arched footbridge, incorporating weir on north side. Round arches, graded in size ; curved parapet with ends curving outwards. Now largely of yellow brick, but with red brick on each side; courses of flint below stone band; stone parapet much replaced in cement. The bridge linked the 2 former estates of North Cray Place and Foots Cray Place, as part of Lancelot Brown's landscaping of both parks. (See Dorothy Stroud's 'Lancelot Brown').
Listing NGR: TQ4822771880
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 198696
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stroud, D, Capability Brown, (1975)
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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