Armstrong Bridge
ARMSTRONG BRIDGE, A1058
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355205
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Armstrong Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- ARMSTRONG BRIDGE, A1058
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355205
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Armstrong Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- ARMSTRONG BRIDGE, A1058
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:
- ARMSTRONG BRIDGE, A1058
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Newcastle upon Tyne (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 26362 66151
Details
NZ 26 NE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE A.1058 (north side, off)
9/70 Armstrong Bridge.
G.V. II
Bridge over Ouseburn. 1875-78. By Sir William Armstrong and the Armstrong Works; built in consultation with the Town Improvement Committee and about £5,000 of the total £30,000 cost was provided by the town; presented to the town on completion. Wrought iron; rock-faced sandstone piers and abutments. 8 spans totalling 552 feet, from 30 to 65 feet high. Lattice girders rest on abutments and on 7 pairs of square box-section columns on stone piers. Girders and columns are on cast iron rocker bearings, and central column had sliding bearings, to allow for movement caused by mining subsidence and heat. Lattice iron parapets. Stone balustrades to abutments. Such articulated construction was next used in building footbridges over motorways. Historical note: Sir William Armstrong, later Lord Armstrong was a generous benefactor to Newcastle. Source,: Michael Bussell of Ove Arup and Partners, in Tyne and Wear Industrial Monuments Trust In Trust Issue No. 12, November, 1984.
Listing NGR: NZ2636266151
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304368
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
In Trust in November, Vol. 12, (1984)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 7 Cleveland Part 13 Durham Part 41 Tyne and Wear,
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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