GREAT BOW BRIDGE

GREAT BOW BRIDGE, BOW STREET, A 378

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1277510
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1959
List Entry Name:: GREAT BOW BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: GREAT BOW BRIDGE, BOW STREET, A 378

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1277510
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1959
List Entry Name:: GREAT BOW BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: GREAT BOW BRIDGE, BOW STREET, A 378

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GREAT BOW BRIDGE, BOW STREET, A 378

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Curry Rivel
District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Langport
National Grid Reference:: ST4156626640

Details

The asset was previously listed twice also under the parish of Langport at List entry 1235760. That entry was removed from the List on 14 October 2024.

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14 October 2024 to remove references to duplicate list entry and reference to source. The GIS triangle depiction was moved slightly from ST4155226636 to ST4156626640, thus placing it on the parish boundary between Langport and Curry Rivel which passes through the building. The grid reference was removed from the Details text.

CURRY RIVEL CP

ST32NW

2/77

LANGPORT

BOW STREET

Great Bow bridge

17.4.59

II

Road bridge over River Parrett. Completed 1841. Local lias stone ashlar. Three wide elliptical arches with impost courses, and keystones to arches, band course over, then plain parapet, which is extended at each end into long wing walls: centre of bridge gently humped. Bridge first mention in 1220, it was last rebuilt by the Parrett Navigation Company, assisted by the corporation.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 431257
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)

Legal

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