MERSEY LOCKS ST HELENS CANAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1330354
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:: MERSEY LOCKS ST HELENS CANAL
Statutory Address:: MERSEY LOCKS ST HELENS CANAL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1330354
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:: MERSEY LOCKS ST HELENS CANAL
Statutory Address 1:: MERSEY LOCKS ST HELENS CANAL

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: MERSEY LOCKS ST HELENS CANAL

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

District:: Halton (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Park:: N/A
National Grid Reference:: SJ 51391 84209

Details

SJ58 SW FORMER BOROUGH OF WIDNES SPIKE ISLAND 5/106 West Bank

Mersey locks St Helens Canal

II

East lock with restored gates, one of pair of locks where the St Helens Canal joins the River Mersey at Spike Island, 1833 with later alterations and repairs. The locks control a difference in water level of 12' between canal and river level. Constructed of large timber with massive posts and rails; the canal end gate with catwalk. Gate restoration to east lock and removal of gates and sealing of north end of west lock formed part of an enhancement scheme in 1981.

Listing NGR: SJ5139184209

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Legacy System number:: 56059
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.