Old Dee Bridge
OLD DEE BRIDGE, HANDBRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1375850
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Old Dee Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- OLD DEE BRIDGE, HANDBRIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1375850
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Old Dee Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD DEE BRIDGE, HANDBRIDGE
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:
- OLD DEE BRIDGE, HANDBRIDGE
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 40717 65745
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4065 HANDBRIDGE 1932-1/8/165 Old Dee Bridge 28/07/55 (Formerly Listed as: Old Dee Bridge)
GV I
Road bridge over River Dee. Late C14, altered 1826. Red sandstone. 7 arches, from north to south: a pair of segmental arches north of diagonal weir; serving leat to former Mills of Dee then by hydro-electric power station; cutwater at weir, then plain abutment to first, parabolic, river arch; cutwater; pointed arch with moulded arris; cutwater; narrower arch with moulded arris; cutwater; broad segmental arch with moulded arris; bottom stage forming rectangular projection upstream for former gate-tower; large cutwater; narrow segmental arch probably in place of former drawbridge. The bridge was widened, upstream, in 1826, to provide a footway, partly corbelled. The present bridge replaced earlier medieval bridges, probably of timber, and is believed to stand on the site of a Roman bridge. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-: 157-8; Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Chester: Edinburgh: 1979-: 136).
Listing NGR: SJ4071765745
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469829
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971), 157-8
Harris, B, Bartholomew City Guides in Chester, (1979), 136
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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