QUAYSIDE WALLS AT ROYAL DOCK

QUAYSIDE WALLS AT ROYAL DOCK, ROYAL DOCK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379867
Date first listed:: 30-Jun-1999
List Entry Name:: QUAYSIDE WALLS AT ROYAL DOCK
Statutory Address:: QUAYSIDE WALLS AT ROYAL DOCK, ROYAL DOCK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379867
Date first listed:: 30-Jun-1999
List Entry Name:: QUAYSIDE WALLS AT ROYAL DOCK
Statutory Address 1:: QUAYSIDE WALLS AT ROYAL DOCK, ROYAL DOCK

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: QUAYSIDE WALLS AT ROYAL DOCK, ROYAL DOCK

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District:: North East Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TA 27650 10735

Details

GRIMSBY

TA2710NE ROYAL DOCK, The Docks 699-1/7/126 Quayside walls at Royal Dock

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Dock quayside retaining walls. 1849-52, by James Rendel, engineer, with Adam Smith of Brigg as resident engineer, and Hutchins, Brown and White, contractors, for the Grimsby Dock Company. York stone ashlar walls on a brick substructure; cast-iron mooring bollards. The dock, covering about 20 acres, measures 2200 feet (670 metres) north to south and 500 feet (152 metres) east to west, with a pair of locks (one now disused) at the seaward end, flanking the jetty on which the Dock Tower stands (qv). The dockside quays were built using the same vaulted construction system that John Rennie had devised and employed for the first time in 1798-9 at Grimsby Haven Dock, and which is still visible beside the disused Grimsby Haven Lock (qv). Here it is on a much larger scale. Behind the 8-foot thick stone quay walls of the Royal Dock are a series of semicircular brick arched vaults spanning 33 feet (10 metres) between brick piers on piled foundations, resembling a concealed viaduct, with the vaults extending 72 feet (22 metres) back at right angles from the quayside. The quay wall, 32 feet (9.75 metres) high, is pierced by smaller round-headed openings below water level in order to equalise water pressure between the dock and the vaults behind. HISTORY: the dock was located wholly outside the original Humber Bank, projecting out into the deeper water of the estuary so that it could take the largest ships of its period. It was built inside a massive cofferdam about a mile long, extending half a mile into the Humber and enclosing 138 acres. Its opening in May 1852 by Prince Albert, marked by a banquet in one of the lock pits, is commemorated by the Albert Statue in front of the Dock Offices at the southern end of the Royal Dock (qv). The Royal Dock, with its accompanying entrance locks and Dock Tower (qv) represents a major example of a comprehensive Victorian engineering project, and is especially notable for its quayside construction and innovative hydraulic technology. This dock and the surviving section of the nearby Grimsby Haven Dock incorporating the former entrance lock, built 50 years apart and both using the same vaulted construction system originally devised by John Rennie for use at Grimsby, form an interesting comparison.

(Civil Engineering Heritage: Labrum EA: Eastern and Central England: London: 1994-: 52-4; A guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Lincolnshire & S.Humbs: Wright NR: Lincoln: 1983-: 16-18; University of Hull Publications: Gillett E: A History of Grimsby: London: 1970-: 214-5; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 343; Ambler RW: Great Grimsby Fishing Heritage: a brief for a trail: Grimsby Borough Council: 1990-: 17-18, 20-22).

Listing NGR: TA2765010735

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Legacy System number:: 479302
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gillett, E, A History of Grimsby, (1970), 214-215
Pevsner, N, John, H, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1964), 343
Wright, N R, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Lincolnshire16-18
Labrum, E A, 'Civil Engineering Heritage' in Eastern And Central England, (1994), 52-54

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