Lune Bridge
LUNE BRIDGE, B6277
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338576
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lune Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- LUNE BRIDGE, B6277
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338576
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lune Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- LUNE BRIDGE, B6277
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:
- LUNE BRIDGE, B6277
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Holwick
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lunedale
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 95904 24041
Details
LUNEDALE B6277, Laithkirk NY 92 SE 10/122 Lune Bridge GV II Road bridge over the River Lune. Late C18; upstream side widened c.1868 (when Lune Viaduct built). Sandstone ashlar; rebuilt parapets and snecked, rock- faced upstream side.
Downstream segmental arch, with flush voussoirs, flanked by battered buttresses; chamfered band above arch. Upstream segmental arch with projecting rock-faced voussoirs. Parapets with segmental copings. Attached end walls: flat-coped to north, about 9.0 metres long and curved on plan; south-east wall ends in a circular pier with domical cap, south-west wall ends in a rectangular pier.
Included for group value.
This bridge straddles the parishes of Holwick, Middleton and Lunedale.
E Jervoise. The Ancient Bridges of the North of England, 1931 p 48.
Listing NGR: NY9590424041
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111292
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jervoise, E, The Ancient Bridges in the North of England, (1931), 48
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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