Coventry Canal Towpath Bridge to Entrance to Basin
COVENTRY CANAL TOWPATH BRIDGE TO ENTRANCE TO BASIN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293338
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Coventry Canal Towpath Bridge to Entrance to Basin
- Statutory Address:
- COVENTRY CANAL TOWPATH BRIDGE TO ENTRANCE TO BASIN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293338
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Coventry Canal Towpath Bridge to Entrance to Basin
- Statutory Address 1:
- COVENTRY CANAL TOWPATH BRIDGE TO ENTRANCE TO BASIN
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:
- COVENTRY CANAL TOWPATH BRIDGE TO ENTRANCE TO BASIN
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 21695 03308
Details
TAMWORTH
SK20SW COVENTRY CANAL, Glascote 670-1/4/30 Towpath Bridge to Entrance to Basin
II
Towpath bridge. Early C19 with mid C19 coping. Brick. Elliptical arch; parapets with stone-coped brick piers and rounded coping, that to canal side has end swept down to ground level. Situated to west side of canal. One of a series of bridges on the Coventry Canal. (Canals of the British Isles: Hadfield C: Canals of the East Midlands: London: 1966-: P.23-24; Inland Waterways Histories: Broadbridge SR: Birmingham Canal Navigations Vol I: 1768-1846: London: 1974-: P.41-45).
Listing NGR: SK2169503308
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386482
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hadfield, C, The Canals of the British Isles in The Canals of the East Midlands, (1966), 23-4
Broadbridge, S R, Inland Waterways Histories in Birmingham Canal Navigations 1768-1846, (1974), 41-5
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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