Footbridge Immediately West of Crediton Railway Station Main Range
FOOTBRIDGE IMMEDIATELY WEST OF CREDITON RAILWAY STATION MAIN RANGE, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209597
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Footbridge Immediately West of Crediton Railway Station Main Range
- Statutory Address:
- FOOTBRIDGE IMMEDIATELY WEST OF CREDITON RAILWAY STATION MAIN RANGE, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209597
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Footbridge Immediately West of Crediton Railway Station Main Range
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOOTBRIDGE IMMEDIATELY WEST OF CREDITON RAILWAY STATION MAIN RANGE, STATION ROAD
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:
- FOOTBRIDGE IMMEDIATELY WEST OF CREDITON RAILWAY STATION MAIN RANGE, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Crediton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 83921 99493
Details
CREDITON
SX8399 STATION ROAD 672-1/4/154 Footbridge immediately west of 24/08/89 Crediton Railway Station Main Range
GV II
Footbridge over railway line. 1878 (datestone), built for the LSWR. Rock-faced, grey limestone piers with Bathstone dressings; plate girder iron bridge and stair construction, timber steps. Plan: each pier contains a small store room and supports 2 flights of steps up to the bridge; those on the west side with landings, those on the east lead onto the station platforms. The east side of the bridge is unfloored and railed off with cast iron railings. Exterior: The piers have clasping buttresses and parapets with plain coping. Each storeroom has a chamfered doorway on the west side and crank-arched chamfered window on the outer face with a 4-pane sash window. In the parapet above the south window of the south pier there is a chamfered recessed panel with a Shield inscribed "L. & S.W.R.Y. 1878." The flights of steps on the west side of the bridge are supported on 4 cast iron columns fluted capitals. The bridge was formerly roofed over (information from railway worker). Interior: The storerooms are plain with brick barrel-vaulted roofs. Historical Note: The complicated early history of the line, which began in 1838, led to its being known as the 'Vicar of Bray Railway', but eventually the Exeter and Crediton Railway (Act of 1845) was leased to the Bristol and Exeter Railway who converted to broad guage and opened May 12 1851 until the LSWR took over the lease in 1862 (St John Thomas, pp.92-96). An attractive bridge and part of a group of C19 railway buildings of different dates. (A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: St John Thomas, David,: The West Country: PP.92-96).
Listing NGR: SX8392199493
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387103
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Thomas, D, A Regional History of The Railways of Great Britain in The West Country, (), 92-96
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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