Crown Point Bridge Over River Aire

CROWN POINT BRIDGE OVER RIVER AIRE, CROWN POINT ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1375272
Date first listed:
08-May-1974
List Entry Name:
Crown Point Bridge Over River Aire
Statutory Address:
CROWN POINT BRIDGE OVER RIVER AIRE, CROWN POINT ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1375272
Date first listed:
08-May-1974
Date of most recent amendment:
11-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
Crown Point Bridge Over River Aire
Statutory Address 1:
CROWN POINT BRIDGE OVER RIVER AIRE, CROWN POINT ROAD

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CROWN POINT BRIDGE OVER RIVER AIRE, CROWN POINT ROAD

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

District:
Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SE 30741 33141

Details

LEEDS

SE3033SE CROWN POINT ROAD 714-1/79/143 Crown Point Bridge over River Aire 08/05/74 (Formerly Listed as: CROWN POINT ROAD Crown Point Bridge)

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Road bridge. 1842, widened 1994-5 on east side. By George Leather. Stone abutments and road walls, cast-iron arch and parapet with lattice steel work in spandrels. In Gothic Revival style; wide single-span segmental arch, ornate herringbone pattern railed parapet. Abutments have sunk panels with quatrefoil ornament, moulding at road level, pilaster surmounted by lamp standards. Built to carry the road linking Hunslet with the east end of the city, taking its name from the area known as Crown Point Wharf to the west of the bridge; part of the extensive development of the Aire and Calder Navigation at Leeds Lock (qv) since c1820. The bridge was cast at the Park Ironworks, Sheffield, and cost »8,750. (Fraser, D (Ed): History of Modern Leeds: 1980-: 137).



Listing NGR: SE3074133141

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Legacy System number:
466157
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Fraser, D, A History of Modern Leeds, (1980), 137

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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