Bridge Number 53
BRIDGE NUMBER 53, GRAND UNION CANAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1189617
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Number 53
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE NUMBER 53, GRAND UNION CANAL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1189617
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Number 53
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE NUMBER 53, GRAND UNION CANAL
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 53, GRAND UNION CANAL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stoke Bruerne
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 74377 49828
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29/08/2012
SP 7448
13/163
01/12/51
STOKE BRUERNE
GRAND UNION CANAL
Bridge No.53
(Formerly listed as Bridge over the canal (crossing east to west)
GV
II
Bridge. Late C18, doubled 1835. Coursed squared limestone, with red brick arches
and brick parapet to east half; Double-span bridge with elliptical
arches. That to older, west half has narrower span and is somewhat lower. Wide
at the ends, the bridge narrows and then curves outwards again at the centre,
the two halves meeting in the form of a cutwater. String course at base of
parapet which dips at the centre. Channel under west span is not in use.
(K. Falconer: Guide to England's Industrial Heritage: 1980, p170)
Listing NGR: SP7437749828
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 234983
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Falconer, K, Guide to Englands Industrial Heritage, (1980), 170
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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