Viaduct Including Adjacent Piers to Earlier Viaduct
VIADUCT INCLUDING ADJACENT PIERS TO EARLIER VIADUCT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1203142
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Viaduct Including Adjacent Piers to Earlier Viaduct
- Statutory Address:
- VIADUCT INCLUDING ADJACENT PIERS TO EARLIER VIADUCT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1203142
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1981
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Viaduct Including Adjacent Piers to Earlier Viaduct
- Statutory Address 1:
- VIADUCT INCLUDING ADJACENT PIERS TO EARLIER VIADUCT
- Statutory Address 2:
- VIADUCT INCLUDING ADJACENT PIERS TO EARLIER VIADUCT
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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:
- VIADUCT INCLUDING ADJACENT PIERS TO EARLIER VIADUCT
- Statutory Address:
- VIADUCT INCLUDING ADJACENT PIERS TO EARLIER VIADUCT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Liskeard
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dobwalls
- National Grid Reference:
- SX2370663971
Details
LISKEARD
SX26SW
979-1/3/200
MOORSWATER
Viaduct including adjacent piers to earlier viaduct
(Formerly Listed as: MOORSWATER Moorswater Viaduct)
(Formerly Listed as: MOORSWATER Piers of original Viaduct)
22/07/81
II*
Railway viaduct and remains of piers of earlier viaduct. Earlier piers 1859 by IK Brunel. Replacement viaduct 1881. Engineer PJ Margary. Resident engineer HG Cole was killed during the rebuilding by a crane overturning and was succeeded by TH Gibbons.
Seven tapering piers of snecked rock-faced slatestone with eight semi-circular arches with granite long and short voussoirs. Moulded corbel course with moulded stone brackets supporting an iron parapet railing of uprights, lattice braces and ornamental adjustment rings. Contemporary refuges corbelled out on paired stone brackets. 290 metres in length and 49 metres high. Remains of earlier piers to south similar to those used in St Pinnock viaduct (Liskeard Rural CP). Roughly-dressed, coursed slatestone with stepped buttresses with weatherings rising to form five stages. Pointed openings piercing the four upper stages. Arches to lowest stages with keystones.
One in series of viaducts in quick succession on Brunel's Plymouth to Truro GWR line opened in 1859.
The asset was previously listed twice also at List entry 1328101. The duplicate entry was removed from the List on 10 July 2017.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10 July 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382102
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Todd, , Laws, , Industrial Archaeology of Cornwall, (1972)
Pugsley, A, The Works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, (1980)
Woodfin, R J, The Cornwall Railway, (1972)
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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