High Bridge

HIGH BRIDGE, RIDWARE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1190422
Date first listed:
09-Mar-1953
Statutory Address:
HIGH BRIDGE, RIDWARE ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1190422
Date first listed:
09-Mar-1953
Statutory Address 1:
HIGH BRIDGE, RIDWARE ROAD

Location

Statutory Address:
HIGH BRIDGE, RIDWARE ROAD

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

County:
Staffordshire
District:
Lichfield (District Authority)
Parish:
Armitage with Handsacre
County:
Staffordshire
District:
Lichfield (District Authority)
Parish:
Mavesyn Ridware
National Grid Reference:
SK0921916753

Details

SK 01 NE; 6/13

ARMITAGE WITH HANDSACRE C.P.,
RIDWARE ROAD,
High Bridge (that part in Armitage with Handsacre C.P.)

II*

Road bridge. 1830. Cast-iron bridge made by the Coalbrookdale Works,
with rusticated ashlar abutments. Single segmental arch over the
River Trent with cross patterned spandrels and a span of 140 feet.
The abutments have a dentilled cornice and sweep forward to terminate
in semi-octagonal piers with massive caps. On each side of the bridge,
behind the abutments, is a flight of steps. The original iron parapet
has been removed. The other part of High Bridge is Listed under Mavesyn
Ridware C.P. B.o.E. p. 204.

Listing NGR: SK0921916753

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Legacy System number:
272859
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 204

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