Monkwearmouth Railway Bridge Over River Wear With Viaduct to North
MONKWEARMOUTH RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER RIVER WEAR WITH VIADUCT TO NORTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207051
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Monkwearmouth Railway Bridge Over River Wear With Viaduct to North
- Statutory Address:
- MONKWEARMOUTH RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER RIVER WEAR WITH VIADUCT TO NORTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207051
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Monkwearmouth Railway Bridge Over River Wear With Viaduct to North
- Statutory Address 1:
- MONKWEARMOUTH RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER RIVER WEAR WITH VIADUCT TO NORTH
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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:
- MONKWEARMOUTH RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER RIVER WEAR WITH VIADUCT TO NORTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sunderland (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 39625 57416
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 05/02/2018
NZ 3957 SE, 920-1/18/1
SUNDERLAND,
Monkwearmouth Railway Bridge over River Wear with viaduct to north
(Formerly Listed as: Railway Bridge across River Wear)
10/11/78
GV
II
Railway bridge and viaduct to north. 1879. For Monkwearmouth
Junction Railway of North Eastern Railway Company. Engineer
Thomas Harrison. Wrought-iron arch, rock-faced abutments with
ashlar dressings. Girder deck and bow-string arch with girder
ties braced by pierced plates graduating from circles to tall
ovals. Piers arch-pierced with plinths and top bands below
square ashlar rail-bed piers with plinths, top bands and
chamfered coping. Abutments and viaduct of rock-faced stone
have high accommodation arches over Sheepfolds Road and
Easington Street with voussoirs, and flat-coped ashlar
parapets. Built to link former Brandling Junction Railway line
terminus at Monkwearmouth Station with a new Central Station
in Sunderland; the first through line between Newcastle and
Sunderland. Said to be `the largest hog-back iron girder
bridge in the world' when built. The railway bridge and
viaduct to north is linked with Monkwearmouth Station (qv).
Listing NGR: NZ3962557416
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391375
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sinclair, N T, Railways of Sunderland, (1986)
Biddle, G, Britain's Historic Railway Buildings: A Gazetteer of Structures and Sites, (2011), 433
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: County Durham, (1983)
Warn, C R, Northern History Booklets in Rails Between Tyne and Wear (Route 219), (), 30
Hoole, K, A Regional History of The Railways of Great Britain in The North East, (1965)
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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