Chester Weir and Salmon Leap
CHESTER WEIR AND SALMON LEAP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1375691
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Chester Weir and Salmon Leap
- Statutory Address:
- CHESTER WEIR AND SALMON LEAP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1375691
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Chester Weir and Salmon Leap
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHESTER WEIR AND SALMON LEAP
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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:
- CHESTER WEIR AND SALMON LEAP
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 40767 65828
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4065 RIVER DEE 1932-1/8/66 Chester Weir and Salmon Leap
I
Weir and former causeway across River Dee. 1093. By Hugh Lupus first Earl of Chester. For St Werburgh's Benedictine Abbey (now Cathedral Church of Christ & the Blessed Virgin Mary, Chester IM). Altered. Sandstone. Continuous weir with sloping spillway of large rectangular stones. 120m long, at an acute angle to the banks and at its north-west end parallel with the bank for 33m, designed to provide the necessary head of water for the medieval Mills of Dee, built and enlarged from 1093 to provide 6 mill-wheels and trains of machinery by 1270; stone salmon leap, altered; leat for later mill, altered, adjoining the south bank. The mills on the north bank were demolished 1910, that on the south bank c1970. HISTORICAL NOTE: the Mills of Dee for which it provided power were amongst the largest and most valuable in England during the C13, the annual rental being 270 pounds. The weir was restored early C20 to serve the City Council's hydro-electric power station, which operated 1913 to 1939, on the site of the former mills. (Cheshire SMR: Collens J: 3008/4/2; History of Cornmilling: Bennet R & Elton J: Some Feudal Mills: Liverpool: 1904-).
Listing NGR: SJ4076765828
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469670
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bennet, R, Elton, J, History of Cornmilling, (1904)
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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