Salt Bridge (Over Trent and Mersey Canal)
SALT BRIDGE (OVER TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1258042
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Salt Bridge (Over Trent and Mersey Canal)
- Statutory Address:
- SALT BRIDGE (OVER TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1258042
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Salt Bridge (Over Trent and Mersey Canal)
- Statutory Address 1:
- SALT BRIDGE (OVER TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL)
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:
- SALT BRIDGE (OVER TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Stafford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Salt and Enson
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 95892 28134
Details
In the entry for:
SJ 92 NE SALT AND EANSON
17/2A Salt Bridge( over Trent and Mersey Canal) 15.1.68 II
The entry shall be amended to read
SJ 92 NE SALT AND ENSON TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL 17/2A Salt Bridge No 82 15.1.68 - II
Canal road bridge. Probably of late C18 origins, rebuilt/expanded together with adjacent railway bridge. Red brick and brindled brick with ashlar parapet and dressings. Single span with towpath. Segmental headed arch. Stone springing stones, impost bands and arch rings on both sides. Remains of stone quoins to west off-side. Arch rings stepped outwards to east side. Recessed panel with surrounding band above arch to west side. Stone cornice above band of corbelled, brindled bricks on both sides. The Trent and Mersey Canal was built between 1766 and 1777 by James Brindley and Hugh Henshall. Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands (1966) Jean Lindsay, The Trent and Mersey Canal (1979)
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SALT AND ENSON 1. 2385 Salt Bridge (over Trent and SJ 92 NE 17/2A Mersey Canal) 15.1.68. 2. Probably early C19. Ashlar and of 1 span with segmental arch, Plain parapets.
Listing NGR: SJ9589228134
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 444158
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lindsay, J, The Trent and Mersey Canal, (1979)
Hadfield, C, The Canals of the British Isles in The Canals of the East Midlands, (1966)
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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