SWINFORD BRIDGE (THAT PART IN CUMNOR)

SWINFORD BRIDGE (THAT PART IN CUMNOR), OXFORD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1284764
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1966
List Entry Name:: SWINFORD BRIDGE (THAT PART IN CUMNOR)
Statutory Address:: SWINFORD BRIDGE (THAT PART IN CUMNOR), OXFORD ROAD

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Date:: 2004-02-24
Reference:: IOE01/11043/25
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1284764
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 24-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: SWINFORD BRIDGE (THAT PART IN CUMNOR)
Statutory Address 1:: SWINFORD BRIDGE (THAT PART IN CUMNOR), OXFORD ROAD

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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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: SWINFORD BRIDGE (THAT PART IN CUMNOR), OXFORD ROAD

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
Parish:: Cumnor
National Grid Reference:: SP 44307 08608

Details

CUMNOR OXFORD ROAD SP40NW (East side) Swinford 2/55 Swinford Bridge (that part in 09/02/66 Cumnor C.P.) (Formerly listed as Swinford Bridge) GV II* Bridge. 1767 for Earl of Abingdon, possibly by Sir Robert Taylor. Limestone. Centre 3 bays of ashlar with long raised voussoirs to arches and raised quoins: modillion cornice beneath balustraded parapet: broached cutwaters between each archway. Outer bays of coursed and dressed limestone with round arches, plain string course and ashlar parapet. (E. de Villiers, Swinford Bridge, 1767-1969, 1969).

Listing NGR: SP4430708608

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 249730
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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De Villiers, E, Swinford Bridge 1769-1969, (1969)

Legal

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