Stanley Ferry Aqueduct
STANLEY FERRY AQUEDUCT, BIRKWOOD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1261690
- Date first listed:
- 09-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Stanley Ferry Aqueduct
- Statutory Address:
- STANLEY FERRY AQUEDUCT, BIRKWOOD ROAD
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- 2001-10-11
- Reference:
- IOE01/04029/26
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1261690
- Date first listed:
- 09-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Stanley Ferry Aqueduct
- Statutory Address 1:
- STANLEY FERRY AQUEDUCT, BIRKWOOD ROAD
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:
- STANLEY FERRY AQUEDUCT, BIRKWOOD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Normanton and Altofts
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 35580 23028
Details
SE 32 SE
2/67
NORMANTON,
BIRKWOOD ROAD (south side, off),
Stanley Ferry Aqueduct (that part in Normanton CP)
I
Aqueduct carrying Calder Cut of Aire and Calder Navigation over River Calder.
Built 1837-39; designed in 1834 by George Leather jun. of George Leather and
Son, of Leeds. Cast iron with stone abutments. Arched suspension
construction, with trough designed in Classical style. Two iron girder areas
of 155 ft span, with a horizontal tie at the apex, and steel suspension rods
to the trough. The trough, 160 ft. long and 24 ft. wide, has on each outer
side a continuous colonnade of fluted Doric colonnettes with entablature
including triglyphs with guttae and mutules, the lower ends of the arched
supporting girders passing through at each end without interrupting the
colonnade. The stone abutment on each side is disguised by a pedimented
portico in matching style. The trough has been altered by removal of the
towpaths to widen the passage, but the iron stick railings have been replaced
in replica. The item is believed to be the first iron suspension aqueduct in
the world.
Listing NGR: SE3558023028
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436888
- 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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