Chirdonburn Bridge
CHIRDONBURN BRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1370509
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Chirdonburn Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- CHIRDONBURN BRIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1370509
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Chirdonburn Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHIRDONBURN BRIDGE
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:
- CHIRDONBURN BRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Greystead
- National Park:
- Northumberland
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 78322 85046
Details
GREYSTEAD BIRKS NY 78 NE 31/16 Chirdonburn Bridge
II
Hump-backed bridge. Probably early C19. Random rubble and dressed stone. Single broad segmental arch with arch band. Parapet has flat coping and splays out sharply at each end.
Probably the bridge which Sir J.E. Swinburn of Capheaton claimed to have built, in a letter to John Hodgson in 1833.
Northumberland County History : Vol XV.
Listing NGR: NY7832285046
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 239676
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dodds Hope, M, A History of Northumberland in The Parish of Simonburn Modern Parishes Humshaugh Bellingham Falstone Thorneyburn with Greystead Wark Rothbury Alwinton Chapely Holstone Lordship Kila, Vol. 15, (1940)
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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