Trent and Mersey Canal Newcastle Road Bridge and Lock

TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL NEWCASTLE ROAD BRIDGE AND LOCK

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1297503
Date first listed:
24-Jan-1992
List Entry Name:
Trent and Mersey Canal Newcastle Road Bridge and Lock
Statutory Address:
TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL NEWCASTLE ROAD BRIDGE AND LOCK
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1297503
Date first listed:
24-Jan-1992
List Entry Name:
Trent and Mersey Canal Newcastle Road Bridge and Lock
Statutory Address 1:
TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL NEWCASTLE ROAD BRIDGE AND LOCK

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL NEWCASTLE ROAD BRIDGE AND LOCK

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

County:
Staffordshire
District:
Stafford (District Authority)
Parish:
Stone
National Grid Reference:
SJ 89824 34126

Details

STONE

SJ8934 TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL, Stone 651-1/5/67 Newcastle Road Bridge and Lock

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Canal bridge, lock and towpath tunnel. 1771-2. By James Brindley, engineer. Brick with ashlar dressings. Bridge has elliptical arch and round-arched tunnel to west for horses, ashlar tunnel arch to north has oblique timber roller bar with iron strips to left side for rope. Stone-coped parapets, that to north rebuilt. C19 widening to south. Narrow lock with footbridge to lower end; double lower gates and single upper gate, all timber. A good unaltered example of a rare type, one of a series of items on the Trent and Mersey Canal in Stone. The canal was important for the industrial development of the town. (Lindsay J: The Trent and Mersey Canal: 1979-: 41-44).

Listing NGR: SJ8982434126

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Legacy System number:
386044
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Lindsay, J, The Trent and Mersey Canal, (1979), 41-44

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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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