GROSVENOR BRIDGE

GROSVENOR BRIDGE, GROSVENOR ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1375839
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: GROSVENOR BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: GROSVENOR BRIDGE, GROSVENOR ROAD

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Date:: 2001-05-21
Reference:: IOE01/04052/19
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1375839
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 23-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: GROSVENOR BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: GROSVENOR BRIDGE, GROSVENOR ROAD

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:: GROSVENOR BRIDGE, GROSVENOR ROAD

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 40216 65546

Details

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4065 GROSVENOR ROAD 1932-1/8/145 Grosvenor Bridge 28/07/55 (Formerly Listed as: The Grosvenor Bridge)

GV I

Road bridge over River Dee. Designed 1824 by Thomas Harrison, built 1827-1833 under the supervision of his pupil William Cole the younger, with Jesse Hartley as consultant; James Trubshaw contractor, at a cost of 50,000 pounds. Red and cream Peckforton sandstone ashlar. A single deep segmental 200 foot span arch across the river, believed to have been the longest stone arch in the world when built. River arch with pavilion-abutments; an archway for pedestrians and coaches to each side; outer abutments, quadrant-shaped in plan, stepping down with slope of embankments. The river arch has 2 rings of cream voussoirs with red sandstone outer moulding and 2 rings of long shallow voussoirs above; recessed spandrel panels; frieze and cornice with rectangular modillions; parapet of round-topped ashlar slabs, with raised panel above crown of arch. The battered Doric pavilions have rusticated plinths of tooled ashlar, curved batter to faces; 2-course frieze above plinth; round-arched niche; stone panel; Doric architrave, frieze and pediment. The round-arched side openings and the outer abutments are rock-faced masonry. On the bridge a slate plaque gives historic details. (Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Cheshire: Edinburgh: 1979-: 115-116; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-: 159-160).

Listing NGR: SJ4021665546

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 469818
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971), 159-160
Harris, B, 'Bartholomew City Guides' in Chester, (1979), 115-6

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.