Railway Viaduct Over River Ribble
RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER RIVER RIBBLE, RIVERSIDE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218908
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Railway Viaduct Over River Ribble
- Statutory Address:
- RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER RIVER RIBBLE, RIVERSIDE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218908
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Railway Viaduct Over River Ribble
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER RIVER RIBBLE, RIVERSIDE
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:
- RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER RIVER RIBBLE, RIVERSIDE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Preston (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD5352928409
Details
The asset was previously listed twice also under List entry 1249288. This entry was removed from the list on 6th May 2015.
PRESTON
SD5328 941-1/8/239
RIVERSIDE
(South West side)
Railway viaduct over River Ribble
II
Railway viaduct carrying North Union Railway over River
Ribble; now British Rail viaduct. 1837-8, for North Union
Railway Company, resident engineer Charles Vignoles; widened
1879-80 (with subsequent further addition). Rusticated
hammer-dressed sandstone ashlar. Approx. 200 metres long, in 5
wide spans. Classical style. Low barge-shaped piers; 5 wide
segmental arches with long rusticated voussoirs, a continuous
moulded cornice, and plain parapet (now interrupted by
stanchions of overhead power lines). The soffits of the arches
are also rusticated, and have longitudinal joints on the
midline, the width of the viaduct having been doubled in
1879-80 and the addition built in matching style. Northernmost
arch spans riverside road entering Miller Park from west, and
dies into a battered pier. West side of item partly covered by
later iron addition. (Southern half of structure is in
Penwortham CP, South Ribble District.)
Listing NGR: SD 53529 28409
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392133
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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