Pair of Culvert Arches Over River Medlock and Associated Overflow Channel
PAIR OF CULVERT ARCHES OVER RIVER MEDLOCK AND ASSOCIATED OVERFLOW CHANNEL, NEW ELM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283003
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Pair of Culvert Arches Over River Medlock and Associated Overflow Channel
- Statutory Address:
- PAIR OF CULVERT ARCHES OVER RIVER MEDLOCK AND ASSOCIATED OVERFLOW CHANNEL, NEW ELM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283003
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Pair of Culvert Arches Over River Medlock and Associated Overflow Channel
- Statutory Address 1:
- PAIR OF CULVERT ARCHES OVER RIVER MEDLOCK AND ASSOCIATED OVERFLOW CHANNEL, NEW ELM 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:
- PAIR OF CULVERT ARCHES OVER RIVER MEDLOCK AND ASSOCIATED OVERFLOW CHANNEL, NEW ELM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 82949 97716
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8297 NEW ELM ROAD 698-1/18/245 (East side) Pair of culvert arches over River Medlock and associated overflow channel
GV II
Pair of culvert arches. Probably 1765, by James Brindley, for Duke of Bridgewater. Coursed squared sandstone. Two low segmental spans at an angle, over the outflows from the River Medlock culvert and the overflow culvert from the Giant's Basin, that on the right lower and with a plain arch-band. Part of hydraulic system by which the Bridgewater Canal terminus basin exploited the course of the River Medlock, which was diverted through a culvert running from east of Deansgate at Knott Mill to this position, and the canal overflow was returned to the river via a circular weir at Potato Wharf known as the Giant's Basin. Simple stucture of national historical importance. See also Giant's Basin, Potato Wharf, and Floodgate, Deansgate.
Listing NGR: SJ8294997716
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388348
- 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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