Bridge in Touts Quarry at NGR SY 685 727
BRIDGE IN TOUTS QUARRY AT NGR SY 685 727, WIDE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281839
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge in Touts Quarry at NGR SY 685 727
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE IN TOUTS QUARRY AT NGR SY 685 727, WIDE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281839
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge in Touts Quarry at NGR SY 685 727
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE IN TOUTS QUARRY AT NGR SY 685 727, WIDE STREET
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:
- BRIDGE IN TOUTS QUARRY AT NGR SY 685 727, WIDE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Portland
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 68509 72730
Details
PORTLAND
SY67SE WIDE STREET, Yeates 969-1/1/191 (West side (off)) Bridge in Touts Quarry at NGR SY 685 727
II
Foot bridge over track or quarry rail bed. Dated 1854. Dry-laid thin-bedded Portland stone with ashlar dressings. Set between natural rock revetments where track cut through, arch c 2.5m wide and 3.5m to crown, to tunnel vault c4m long, in good dressed quoins and voussoirs, including cranked single stone voussoir at haunches; above crown a plain stone with inscription 'J.C.LANO 1854'. Bridge rises to c 5.5m, without parapets, and with overgrown earth walkway. On the NW side, which is overgrown with ivy (June 1991), there is an adit on the N side, blocked with loose masonry at c 3m depth. A flight of 27 concrete steps descends by the S abutment. The name Lano occurs amongst the inscriptions in the churchyard to St. George Reforne; this is a well-built structure with some design pretension in an abandoned quarry area.
Listing NGR: SY6850972730
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382082
- 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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