Dow Bridge
DOW BRIDGE, WATLING STREET (A5)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276490
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Dow Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- DOW BRIDGE, WATLING STREET (A5)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276490
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Dow Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOW BRIDGE, WATLING STREET (A5)
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:
- DOW BRIDGE, WATLING STREET (A5)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Rugby (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newton and Biggin
- National Grid Reference:
- SP5435077923
Details
The following building shall be added:
SP 57 NW
8/59
NEWTON AND BIGGIN
WATLING STREET (A5)
Dow Bridge
II
Road bridge (now disused) carrying Watling Street over the River Avon. An
1838 partial rebuild of an earlier bridge (probably C18). Tooled coursed
ashlar. Chamfered coping. 6 elliptically headed arches; the arch to the
NW has a keystone carrying the date 'W.P. 1838'. The 2 NW arches almost
completely rebuilt in 1838 (perhaps retaining the earlier cutwater), but
considerable sections of an earlier bridge survive (built of rougher coursed
masonry), especially at the SE end. The road level has been built up to the
level of the parapet coping. A 1722 engraving of an earlier bridge is to be
found in Warwickshire Record Office; it is possible that the present structure
incorporates sections of the bridge illustrated.
Listing NGR: SP5435077923
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 409206
- 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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