OXFORD CANAL AQUEDUCT NUMBER 96

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366581
Date first listed:: 11-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: OXFORD CANAL AQUEDUCT NUMBER 96
Statutory Address:: OXFORD CANAL AQUEDUCT NUMBER 96

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366581
Date first listed:: 11-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: OXFORD CANAL AQUEDUCT NUMBER 96
Statutory Address 1:: OXFORD CANAL AQUEDUCT NUMBER 96

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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Location

Statutory Address:: OXFORD CANAL AQUEDUCT NUMBER 96

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

District:: West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Braunston
National Grid Reference:: SP 52964 65785

Details

BRAUNSTON OXFORD CANAL SP56NW 4/110 Aqueduct No.96

- II

Aqueduct. c.1830. Random blue and red brick. 3 parabolic arches with blue brick surrounds, divided by brick buttresses. Parapet has blue brick coping, blue brick string course at base. Iron plaque inscribed '96' over central arch, Flanking walls extending forwards on either side, blue and red brick, partly rendered. Carries the Oxford Canal across the River Leam. This section of the canal was built in 1829-1834 as part of a scheme for shortening and straightening the canal, which formerly joined the Grand Union Canal at Braunston Wharf. (H. Compton: The Oxford Canal, 1976, p.95).

Listing NGR: SP5296465785

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Legacy System number:: 360996
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Compton, H J , The Oxford Canal, (1976), 95

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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.