THE LION BRIDGE OVER RIVER ALN

THE LION BRIDGE OVER RIVER ALN, A1068

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1304367
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1953
List Entry Name:: THE LION BRIDGE OVER RIVER ALN
Statutory Address:: THE LION BRIDGE OVER RIVER ALN, A1068

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1304367
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1953
List Entry Name:: THE LION BRIDGE OVER RIVER ALN
Statutory Address 1:: THE LION BRIDGE OVER RIVER ALN, A1068

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE LION BRIDGE OVER RIVER ALN, A1068

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District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Denwick
National Grid Reference:: NU 18621 13820

Details

DENWICK A 1068 NU 11 SE (Alnwick) 10/29 The Lion Bridge, over River Aln 10/1/53

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Bridge, 1773 by John Adam. Squared stone with ashlar parapet; lead lion with cast-iron tail. Gothick style. East elevation: central segmental arch flanked by round arches: moulded arch rings; blank shields in circular spandrel panels; stone drain spouts over arches. Cutwaters, pointed on west and rounded on east, carried up as rounded pilasters with blind slits under hoodmoulds and smaller slits above moulded string. Embattled parapet on moulded corbels; refuges have taller parapet on arched corbel table, with cruciform loops and flat moulded coping. Above centre arch is moulded pedestal,with 3 blank shields and festoons, carrying life-size lion with outstretched tail. Parapet on east has plain pedestal without statue. Round-arched carriageway in south abutment; abutments splayed out, with parapets in imitation of fence with adjacent diagonally-set posts and rail below pointed tops; circular end piers with moulded flat caps.

Partly in Alnwick U.D. Considerable group value with Alnwick Castle (Alnwick U.D.). SCHEDULED ANCIENT MOMUMENT

Listing NGR: NU1862013812

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Legacy System number:: 236366
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.