BRIDGE NUMBER 65

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
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE NUMBER 65
Statutory Address:: BRIDGE NUMBER 65, GRAND UNION CANAL, COSGROVE

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973)
'Wolverton Historical Journal' in Wolverton Historical Journal, (1970), 34-40

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.