Bolehall Viaduct
BOLEHALL VIADUCT, GLASCOTE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293304
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Bolehall Viaduct
- Statutory Address:
- BOLEHALL VIADUCT, GLASCOTE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293304
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Bolehall Viaduct
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOLEHALL VIADUCT, GLASCOTE ROAD
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:
- BOLEHALL VIADUCT, GLASCOTE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Tamworth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 21318 03756
Details
TAMWORTH
SK2103SW GLASCOTE ROAD, Bolehall 670-1/10/15 Bolehall Viaduct 09/11/72
GV II
Also known as: Bolebridge Viaduct GLASCOTE ROAD Bolehall. Railway Viaduct. 1837-9. R.Stephenson and G.Bidder, engineers; for Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway. Rusticated ashlar. 19 arches; nos 6 and 7 span River Anker; no 10 spans Amington Road; no 19 is lower and wider and spans Glascote Road. Rusticated segmental arches; piers have rock-faced jambs, round cutwaters to river; bold modillioned cornice and parapet; abutments swept forward. 2 arches have low stone walls flanking entrance gates. An important landmark at the south east end of Tamworth. (A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Christiansen R: The West Midlands: London: 1973-: P.136-7).
Listing NGR: SK2131803756
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386490
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Christiansen, R, A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain in The West Midlands, (1973), 136-7
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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