RAILWAY BRIDGE, APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES SOUTH EAST OF BACKS BRIDGE, PELSALL ROAD WYRLEY AND ESSINGTON CANAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271540
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1996
List Entry Name:: RAILWAY BRIDGE, APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES SOUTH EAST OF BACKS BRIDGE, PELSALL ROAD WYRLEY AND ESSINGTON CANAL
Statutory Address:: RAILWAY BRIDGE, APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES SOUTH EAST OF BACKS BRIDGE, PELSALL ROAD WYRLEY AND ESSINGTON CANAL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271540
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1996
List Entry Name:: RAILWAY BRIDGE, APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES SOUTH EAST OF BACKS BRIDGE, PELSALL ROAD WYRLEY AND ESSINGTON CANAL
Statutory Address 1:: RAILWAY BRIDGE, APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES SOUTH EAST OF BACKS BRIDGE, PELSALL ROAD WYRLEY AND ESSINGTON CANAL

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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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: RAILWAY BRIDGE, APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES SOUTH EAST OF BACKS BRIDGE, PELSALL ROAD WYRLEY AND ESSINGTON CANAL

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

District:: Walsall (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 03909 05220

Details

SK 0391 0522 WALSALL WYRLEY AND ESSINGTON CANAL, Brownhills 1/10007 Railway Bridge, approx lOOm SE of Backs Bridge, Pelsall Road

II

Railway Bridge over Wyrley & Essington canal. c.1856. Cast iron with Staffordshire blue engineering brick abutments and sandstone pad. Solid panel iron parapet with interlaced arch pattern in relief, cast in panels. Moulded iron parapet coping. Stone capped brick pilasters. The parapet design is the same as two aqueducts carrying the Wyrley and Essington over the South Staffordshire Railway. Both of these are dated 1856 and were built by Lloyds Foster and Co. of Wednesbury.

Listing NGR: SK0390905220

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Legacy System number:: 454434
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.