Chirk Aqueduct
CHIRK AQUEDUCT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1295150
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Chirk Aqueduct
- Statutory Address:
- CHIRK AQUEDUCT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1295150
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Chirk Aqueduct
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHIRK AQUEDUCT
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:
- CHIRK AQUEDUCT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Weston Rhyn
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ2869837270
Details
WESTON RHYN C.P.
SJ 23 NE
1/108
SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL
Chirk Aqueduct
GV
II*
Canal aqueduct. 1796-1801 by William Jessop and Thomas Telford for the Ellesmere Canal. Roughly coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and cast-iron railings to parapet on east side. Approximately 20 metres high with ten round-headed arches divided by pilaster strips; curving end walls to north and south. Arches have keystones and imposts struck through to soffit. Canal in trough with cast-iron bed and stone side walls. The aqueduct which cost £20,898 and was opened in 1801, spans the valley of the River Ceiriog and is partly in Wales, the border bisecting the structure at an angle of approximately 45° from south-west to north-east. Forms an impressive sight with the Chirk Viaduct (q.v.) running parallel immediately to west.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 October 2016.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255822
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hadfield, C, The Canals of the West Midlands, (1985), 173
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 313
Hubbard, E, The Buildings of Wales in Clwyd, (1986), 130
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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