Hanging Bridge and Attached Retaining Walls to Road
Hanging Bridge and attached retaining walls, A52, Mayfield
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1230752
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Hanging Bridge and Attached Retaining Walls to Road
- Statutory Address:
- Hanging Bridge and attached retaining walls, A52, Mayfield
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- 2003-04-16
- Reference:
- IOE01/10395/07
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1230752
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Apr-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Hanging Bridge and Attached Retaining Walls to Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- Hanging Bridge and attached retaining walls, A52, Mayfield
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:
- Hanging Bridge and attached retaining walls, A52, Mayfield
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Clifton and Compton
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- East Staffordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mayfield
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- East Staffordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Okeover
- National Grid Reference:
- SK1585145786
Summary
A bridge over the River Dove, a mill-stream bridge and associated retaining walls; C14 core, widened in the late C19 and C20.
Reasons for Designation
Hanging Bridge a C14 bridge widened in the C19 and repaired in the C20, and its attached retaining walls, is listed at Grade II*, for the following principal reasons:
* Relative date: the bridge retains its original structure dating from the C14, visible beneath the later extensions;
* Architectural interest: the bridge and walls are well made with good details;
* Historic interest: the widening and improvement of the bridge illustrate the transition from medieval packhorse transport to larger-scale cart transport.
History
The narrow packhorse bridge over the River Dove at Mayfield dates from the C14, and was widened in the later C19 and C20. The name 'Hanging Bridge' reputedly dates from the C18. After the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie in Derby on 1 December 1745, his forces made their way back to the north, taking their frustrations at their defeat out on local people. As they passed through Mayfield, the terrified villagers took refuge in the church, but were shot at by the soldiers. The perpetrators were caught and hanged from gallows over the side of the bridge.
Details
A bridge over the River Dove, a mill-stream bridge and associated retaining walls; C14 core, widened in the late C19 and C20.
MATERIALS
Ashlar stone.
DESCRIPTION
The bridge has two medieval pointed arches over the River Dove, to either side of a central cutwater, and recessed beneath a single-span segmental arch with buttresses to each side. To the east, a further three arches span the mill stream for Hangingbridge Mill. The plain parapets continue as retaining walls to either side of the road for roughly 100m to the south-west, and 50m to the north-west. The bridge spans the Staffordshire-Derbyshire border.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 405761
- 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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