Queen Alexandra Bridge
QUEEN ALEXANDRA BRIDGE, A1231
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207052
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Queen Alexandra Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- QUEEN ALEXANDRA BRIDGE, A1231
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207052
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Queen Alexandra Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- QUEEN ALEXANDRA BRIDGE, A1231
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:
- QUEEN ALEXANDRA BRIDGE, A1231
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 38182 57842
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ3857 A 1231 920-1/10/3 Queen Alexandra Bridge 04/05/84
II
Double deck road/rail bridge, with approach rail viaduct to N, over River Wear. 1907-9. Designed by Charles A Harrison. For the North Eastern Railway and Sunderland Corporation. Approaches (completed 1907) built by Mitchell Bros. of Glasgow; bridge built by Sir William Arroll & Co. Principal materials are Norwegian rock-faced granite footings, abutments and piers; Dumfries red sandstone approach viaduct; steel superstructure. Box-girder construction of close-set lattice work. Main river span is hog-back, 330 feet long; land spans, one to S and 2 to N, 200 feet long. Rail deck carried on cross girders riveted to steel columns and tied longitudinally at road level by 4-feet-high lattice girders which act as handrails to footpaths, and at rail level by both longitudinal and overhead transverse girders. 5 arches, one blocked, survive of the approach rail viaduct to the N. The last train to cross the bridge was in 1921; the railway tracks were removed before World War II. Having been built for coal traffic, the metal spans are believed to be of the heaviest construction in the country. (Proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineers: paper 3824: Buscarlet and Hunter: The Queen Alexandra Bridge over the River Wear, Sunderland: 1910-: 59).
Listing NGR: NZ3818257842
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391377
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers in Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Vol. 3824, (1910), 59
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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