Causey Arch
CAUSEY ARCH, CAUSEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1240816
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Causey Arch
- Statutory Address:
- CAUSEY ARCH, CAUSEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1240816
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Causey Arch
- Statutory Address 1:
- CAUSEY ARCH, CAUSEY ROAD
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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:
- CAUSEY ARCH, CAUSEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stanley
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 20126 55896
Details
NZ 25 NW STANLEY CAUSEY ROAD (West side, off) 3/162 Causey Arch 19/7/50 GV I Wagonway bridge. 1727 by Ralph Wood for Mr. Wortley and Col. Liddell; dated on stone at foot of west abutment signed B. Horne; formerly also dated on sundial signed Ralph Wood. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. 105' long and 80' high, on round arch of 3 courses of voussoirs, the inner recessed; wide buttresses. Probably originally without parapets; C20 railing added. Considered to be the first railway bridge in the world; an example of the early technological skills of the Northumberland and Durham coalfield engineers. Source: J.C. Mann, 'Causey Arch - a Note' in Archaeologia Aeliana 5 XII (1984), 223-6. T.J.M. Lewis Early Wooden Railways, 1970 pp 150, 155, 156. W.W. Tomlinson North Eastern Railway, 1914, second ed. K. Hoole, Newton Abbott, 1967, p.9.
Listing NGR: NZ2012655896
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439365
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lewis, T J M, Early Wooden Railways, (1970), 150
Lewis, T J M, Early Wooden Railways, (1970), 155
Lewis, T J M, Early Wooden Railways, (1970), 156
Tomlinson, W W, History of the North Eastern Railway, (1967), 9
Archaeologia Aeliana in Archaeologia Aeliana, Vol. 12, (1984), 223-6
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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