Coventry Canal Tame Aqueduct With Attached Pill Box
COVENTRY CANAL TAME AQUEDUCT WITH ATTACHED PILL BOX
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197050
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Coventry Canal Tame Aqueduct With Attached Pill Box
- Statutory Address:
- COVENTRY CANAL TAME AQUEDUCT WITH ATTACHED PILL BOX
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197050
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Coventry Canal Tame Aqueduct With Attached Pill Box
- Statutory Address 1:
- COVENTRY CANAL TAME AQUEDUCT WITH ATTACHED PILL BOX
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:
- COVENTRY CANAL TAME AQUEDUCT WITH ATTACHED PILL BOX
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Tamworth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 20988 02225
Details
TAMWORTH
SK20SW COVENTRY CANAL, Fazeley 670-1/4/28 Tame Aqueduct with attached Pill Box
II
Aqueduct over River Tame. 1785-90 with 1940 pillbox. Thomas Sheasby, engineer, advised by T.Dadford and R.Whitworth. Brick with ashlar dressings, plastered to north side. 3 segmental arches with ashlar triangular cutwaters and ends swept forward; iron railings to north; brick parapet with rounded brick coping and ashlar-coped piers to south side. To west end of south side a 1940 rectangular pill box with opening to east end and 2 openings to north side. (Canals of the British Isles: C.Hadfield: Canals of the East Midlands: London: 1966-: 23-24; Inland Waterways Histories: S.R.Broadbridge: Birmingham Canal Navigations Vol I: 1768-1846: London: 1974-: 41-45).
Listing NGR: SK2098802225
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386481
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hadfield, C, The Canals of the British Isles in The Canals of the East Midlands, (1966), 23-4
Broadbridge, S R, Inland Waterways Histories in Birmingham Canal Navigations 1768-1846, (1974), 41-5
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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