Abbey Bridge
ABBEY BRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1310824
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY BRIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1310824
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBEY BRIDGE
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:
- ABBEY BRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Egglestone Abbey
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Westwick
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ0661614940
Details
The asset was previously listed twice also under List entry 1160434. This entry was removed from the List on 21 December 2017.
NZ 01 SE
066149
7/40
7.1.52
WESTWICK
Abbey Bridge
II*
Road bridge crossing the River Tees. 1773 for John Sawrey Morritt. Mainly
dressed sandstone with some rubble lower courses. Semicircular arch with
dressed voussoirs spans 23 metres and is flanked by slightly-projecting giant-
piers. Battlemented parapet, above chamfered band, breaks forward over piers
to form pedestrian refuges. Paired water-spouts project from base of parapet
at north and south ends of bridge. Merlons and embrasures of parapet have
chamfered coping. North-west section of parapet terminated by low circular-
plan pier with hemispherical cap. Two circular emplacements at southern end
of parapet said to be bases of former toll-houses.
Abbey Bridge straddles the parishes of Westwick and Egglestone Abbey.
Listing NGR: NZ 06616 14940
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111115
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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