Causeway Bridge to End of Minster Pool
CAUSEWAY BRIDGE TO END OF MINSTER POOL, BIRD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292574
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Causeway Bridge to End of Minster Pool
- Statutory Address:
- CAUSEWAY BRIDGE TO END OF MINSTER POOL, BIRD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292574
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Causeway Bridge to End of Minster Pool
- Statutory Address 1:
- CAUSEWAY BRIDGE TO END OF MINSTER POOL, BIRD 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:
- CAUSEWAY BRIDGE TO END OF MINSTER POOL, BIRD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Lichfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lichfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 11477 09587
Details
SK1109NW
1094-1/4/36
LICHFIELD
BIRD STREET (North East side)
Causeway Bridge to end of Minster Pool
(Formerly Listed as: BIRD STREET The Bridge over Minster Pool)
05/02/52
GV
II
Causeway bridge. c1300 and 1816. By Joseph Potter Snr of Lichfield, County Surveyor. Ashlar and cast-iron. Three elliptical arches, the outer ones blind, with pointed cutwaters, roll moulding and low parapet with iron railings; four openwork boxes, with openwork lamp standards to ends reminiscent of the railings to the Shire Hall, Stafford (qv). Incorporates the medieval causeway under the surface. No water to southwest side.
Original causeway bridge carried main London to Chester road over the junction between the Bishop's Fish Pool (drained) and Minster Pool.
Listing NGR: SK1147709587
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382582
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1990), 45
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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