Wensley Bridge
WENSLEY BRIDGE, A684
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318595
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Wensley Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- WENSLEY BRIDGE, A684
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318595
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Wensley Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- WENSLEY BRIDGE, A684
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:
- WENSLEY BRIDGE, A684
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wensley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 09126 89430
Details
SE 08 NE WENSLEY A684
9/74 Wensley Bridge 13/2/67 - II
Bridge. C15, C18, early C19. Coursed stone and ashlar. 4 arches. On downstream side, central 2 arches are pointed, and perhaps of C15 date, with 2 chamfered orders. To the south on this side, an C18 segmental arch with ashlar voussoirs and chamfered archivolt. To the north an early C19 semicircular ashlar arch. Cutwaters are triangular in plan, with concave- chamfered tops. On the upstream side, all 4 arches are of the early C19, semicircular with voussoirs, plain archivolts, and stepped triangular cutwaters. On both sides, early C19 parapets terminating in circular capstan-like bollards, all with horizontal tooling. According to Leland, the bridge was built before 1436 by Alwyne, rector of Wensley. It was widened in 1818. Scheduled as an Ancient Monument. Bulmer, History, Topography and Directory of North Yorkshire (1890), p. 619.
Listing NGR: SE0912689430
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321823
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bulmer, T, History Topography and Directory of North Yorkshire, (1890), 619
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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