PURTON VIADUCT

PURTON VIADUCT, PURTON

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1299210
Date first listed:: 02-Nov-1979
List Entry Name:: PURTON VIADUCT
Statutory Address:: PURTON VIADUCT, PURTON

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Date:: 2002-05-23
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1299210
Date first listed:: 02-Nov-1979
Date of most recent amendment:: 25-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:: PURTON VIADUCT
Statutory Address 1:: PURTON VIADUCT, PURTON

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: PURTON VIADUCT, PURTON

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Forest of Dean (District Authority)
Parish:: Awre
National Grid Reference:: SO 67061 04900

Details

SO 60 NE AWRE PURTON

3/159 Purton Viaduct (formerly listed as Railway 2.11.79 Viaduct over Etloe to Purton Road) - II

Railway viaduct. c.1832. For the Purton Steam Carriage Hoad, crossing the Etloe-Purton road. Red sandstone rubble with dressed voussoirs. 3 arches of diminishing heights, main pier wedge shaped, so that the viaduct is slightly angled: the tallest arch spans road; centre one damaged on NE side. South east wall continues as retaining wall for some distance, slightly curved return to NE. Part of the parapet survives at the north west end. This viaduct is of considerable historical and industrial archaeological interest: the Purton Steam Carriage Road was planned in 1830 - ie at the same time as the Stockton and Darlington Railway first ran. It never in fact ran, but had considerable effect on local politics at the time, and on later railway enterprises in the area. The finance was to come from a prominent local Iron-master, Charles Mathias of Lamphey Court, Pembrokeshire. The viaduct is the most tan- gible surviving evidence for an industrial scheme which would have involved the first crossing of the Severn on a moveable bridge.

Listing NGR: SO6706104900

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Legacy System number:: 353942
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.