Foss Bridge

FOSS BRIDGE, FOSSGATE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1257827
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:
Foss Bridge
Statutory Address:
FOSS BRIDGE, FOSSGATE
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1257827
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1954
Date of most recent amendment:
14-Mar-1997
List Entry Name:
Foss Bridge
Statutory Address 1:
FOSS BRIDGE, FOSSGATE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FOSS BRIDGE, FOSSGATE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
York (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SE 60597 51691

Details

YORK

SE6051NE FOSSGATE 1112-1/17/8 Foss Bridge 14/06/54 (Formerly Listed as: Foss Bridge)

GV II*

Bridge. 1811-12; lamp standards erected 1975. By Peter Atkinson, junior. Ashlar gritstone. Single span with elliptical arch of alternately long and short voussoirs between rusticated pilaster piers. Plain cornice surmounted by parapet of bulbous balusters with moulded coping, broken in centre by sunk-panelled pier. Pilasters rise into parapet as plain terminal piers. Gas lamps on central piers replacements from New Walk. (Murray H, Riddick S & Green R: York through the Eyes of the Artist: York City Art Gallery: 1990-: 155; City of York: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 104).

Listing NGR: SE6059751691

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Legacy System number:
463418
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Sources

Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 104
Murray, H, Riddick, S, Green, R, York Through the Eyes of the Artist, (1990), 155

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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