Sauls Bridge
SAULS BRIDGE, MALDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264929
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Sauls Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- SAULS BRIDGE, MALDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264929
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Sauls Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- SAULS BRIDGE, MALDON 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:
- SAULS BRIDGE, MALDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Witham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 82448 13895
Details
1. 1841 TL 81SW MALDON ROAD 4/100
II Sauls Bridge 2. ROAD BRIDGE CROSSING THE RIVER BRAIN. Circa 1814. Cast Iron with C20 red brick and concrete extension to west face. An 18ft single arched span bridge with 9 soffit ribs. On red brick base, left and right red brick support pillars with cast iron heads. The original east and west faces have central vertical moulded panels with a vertical line over. Left and right upper rectangular panels cast "Ransom and Sons" "Ipswich 1814". Two lower spandrel panels each with central tie bolts to end roundels. East face cast iron base to rails of 8 sections. Cruciform posts. Segmental pointed top rails. 2 sections to right and left curve away from the road, and have alternate moulded and circular rails, the 4 centre sections with 3 moulded rails only. The lower half of the original west face is still visible from the river. C20 west extension with central red brick wall on concrete span, concrete capping. Concrete posts and metal tubular rails to side sections. D Alderton & J Booker, Industrial Archaeology in East Anglia: "The Bridge represents the first agreement by an Essex County Surveyor (Robert Lugar) to build in iron. Total cost £700."
Listing NGR: TL8244813895
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 113621
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Alderton, , Booker, , The Batsford Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of East Anglia, (1980)
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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