Bridge Number 65
BRIDGE NUMBER 65, GRAND UNION CANAL, COSGROVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1190608
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Number 65
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE NUMBER 65, GRAND UNION CANAL, COSGROVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1190608
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Number 65
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE NUMBER 65, GRAND UNION CANAL, COSGROVE
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 65, GRAND UNION CANAL, COSGROVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cosgrove
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 79289 42742
Details
SP7941
16/7
COSGROVE,
GRAND UNION CANAL
Bridge No.65
(Formerly listed as Canal Bridge (Solmon's Bridge))
01/12/51
II*
Canal bridge. c.1800. Dressed limestone. Gothick style. Single-span bridge with
wide slightly pointed arch and curved feet. Arch has blank cusped panels and
keyblock. Semi-octagonal buttresses either side of arch have quatrefoil frieze
to base and ogee half-cupolas and are flanked by ogee-headed niches. Panelled
parapets with circular piers either end. In 1800 the two halves of the Grand
Junction Canal met here. Construction began at Brentford in Middlesex and
Braunston, Northamptonshire. It is said that a certain Colonel Solmons, 'Lord of
the Manor', agreed to the cutting of the canal on condition that he was allowed
to erect the necessary bridge. However the Lord of the Manor at this time was
George Biggin Esq., whose residence, Cosgrove Priory, is in sight of the bridge.
The proximity may explain the bridge's unusually ornamental appearance.
(Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: 1933, p159; Wolverton Historical
Journal: 1970, pp34-40)
Listing NGR: SP7928942742
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 235242
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973)
Wolverton Historical Journal in Wolverton Historical Journal, (1970), 34-40
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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