Dutton Railway Viaduct
DUTTON RAILWAY VIADUCT, WEAVER NAVIGATION
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1216523
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Dutton Railway Viaduct
- Statutory Address:
- DUTTON RAILWAY VIADUCT, WEAVER NAVIGATION
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1216523
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Dutton Railway Viaduct
- Statutory Address 1:
- DUTTON RAILWAY VIADUCT, WEAVER NAVIGATION
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:
- DUTTON RAILWAY VIADUCT, WEAVER NAVIGATION
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Acton Bridge
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ5822476359
Details
The asset was previously listed twice also under List entry 1139139. This entry was removed from the List on 15th March 2016.
SJ 57 NE
1/8
ACTON BRIDGE C.P.
WEAVER NAVIGATION
Dutton Railway Viaduct
II*
Railway viaduct: Completed 1836 by Joseph Locke and George Stephenson
for the Grand Junction Railway Co. Rock faced red sandstone with
ashlar dressings. 20 deep segmental arches of 40 voussoirs with
dropped ashlar keystone on concavely battered piers of 16 cyclopean
courses on plain plinths. Simple battered pilasters on each
rectangular plinth on each outer cornice. Projecting copings.
Cutwaters to the piers of 2 arches, now dry, to the River Weaver
before re-alignment of the Weaver Navigation. 1960's steel pylons for
electrification.
Dutton viaduct is the longest on the Grand Junction Railway and an
early example of a major railway viaduct, but more assured than the
earliest, the Sankey Viaduct on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway,
by the same engineers 3 years earlier. It was completed at a cost of
£54,440, the contractor being McIntosh of London. As no life was lost
or serious injury incurred during construction, its completion was
greeted by a civic celebration. Hewitt H J 1972 The Building of the
Railways in Cheshire.
Listing NGR: SJ 58224 76359
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401945
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hewitt, H J, The Building of the Railways in Cheshire, (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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