Railway Viaduct
RAILWAY VIADUCT, NEW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1267956
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Railway Viaduct
- Statutory Address:
- RAILWAY VIADUCT, NEW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1267956
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Railway Viaduct
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAILWAY VIADUCT, NEW 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:
- RAILWAY VIADUCT, NEW ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chippenham
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 91815 73588
Details
CHIPPENHAM
ST9173NE NEW ROAD 930-1/6/167 (East side) 22/06/78 Railway Viaduct
II*
Railway viaduct. Opened 1841. Mainly by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, widened later. Limestone ashlar to the north side, English-bond brick to the south with a stepped ashlar cornice and parapet to both facades including the piers. Vermiculated rustication to the plinth. 3 semicircular-arched openings to the original structure; the north facade has a tall central road arch with a keystone reaching to the parapet, flanked by lower narrower arches to the footpath. To the east a thick coped retaining wall to the embankment ramps up from a square pier at street level to meet a curved pier at the cornice. A similar pier to the west end is connected to another later brick arcade of 5 full-height arches with a lower one to the west making 9 arches in all. The brick south side is similar but plain. The pier to the east end curves forward to meet a simlar embankment retaining wall. The arches to the west enclose huge vaulted spaces, 2 with rows of harnessing rings to each side, one with an axial division of rubblestone. HISTORY: a lithograph of 1842 shows the north facade as having a classical cornice, the present one may be later. One of the notable monuments on Brunel's main line of the Great Western Railway. (Chamberlain, Joseph A: Chippenham: Chippenham: 1976-: 3).
Listing NGR: ST9181573588
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462388
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Chamberlain, J A, Chippenham, (), 3
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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