Cumberland Footbridge Over Grand Union Canal to Outer Circle, Regents Park

CUMBERLAND FOOTBRIDGE OVER GRAND UNION CANAL TO OUTER CIRCLE, REGENTS PARK, PRINCE ALBERT ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1329910
Date first listed:
16-May-1978
List Entry Name:
Cumberland Footbridge Over Grand Union Canal to Outer Circle, Regents Park
Statutory Address:
CUMBERLAND FOOTBRIDGE OVER GRAND UNION CANAL TO OUTER CIRCLE, REGENTS PARK, PRINCE ALBERT ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1329910
Date first listed:
16-May-1978
Date of most recent amendment:
11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:
Cumberland Footbridge Over Grand Union Canal to Outer Circle, Regents Park
Statutory Address 1:
CUMBERLAND FOOTBRIDGE OVER GRAND UNION CANAL TO OUTER CIRCLE, REGENTS PARK, PRINCE ALBERT ROAD

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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:
CUMBERLAND FOOTBRIDGE OVER GRAND UNION CANAL TO OUTER CIRCLE, REGENTS PARK, PRINCE ALBERT ROAD

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

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Camden (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
County:
Greater London Authority
District:
City of Westminster (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ2822683649

Details

CAMDEN

TQ2883NW PRINCE ALBERT ROAD
798-1/75/1343 Cumberland Footbridge over Grand
16/05/78 Union Canal to Outer Circle, Regents
Park
(Formerly Listed as:
REGENTS PARK
Cumberland Footbridge)

II*

Footbridge over Grand Union Canal. c1864. Manufactured by
Henry Grissell, London (date & name on beams). Cast-iron.
Single span rising in a gentle bow from masonry abutments.
Load bearing beam arches of H section carrying subsidiary
girders of footpath decking. Foliate running pattern
decoration in spandrels of bridge. Cast-iron railings with
enriched arcaded decoration with scroll-bracketed standards.
Portland stone abutments with rusticated plinth carrying piers
with cornices enriched with stiff leaf ornament. Piers
surmounted by cast-iron lamp posts with candelabra bases
having lion masks, column shafts, C20 reproduction lanterns
and single ladder bars. Approaches to bridge with coped
masonry parapets. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached to the
northern end, cast-iron railings with torch flambe finials,
curving on each side to tall stone piers surmounted by torch
flambe urns.

The asset was previously listed twice also under the parish of Marylebone. This entry was removed from the List on 30 November 2017.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
477804
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.

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