Adelaide Bridge
ADELAIDE BRIDGE, ADELAIDE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381116
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Adelaide Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- ADELAIDE BRIDGE, ADELAIDE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381116
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Adelaide Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- ADELAIDE BRIDGE, ADELAIDE 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.
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:
- ADELAIDE BRIDGE, ADELAIDE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Warwick (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Royal Leamington Spa
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 31467 65675
Details
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3165NW ADELAIDE ROAD
1208-1/6/2 Adelaide Bridge
21/02/91
II
Road bridge over River Leam. 1891. By William de Normanville;
abutments of c1850 by Mr Heritage (contractor) under the
supervision of Mr White, Surveyor to the local Board of
Health, and with repairs and restoration of c1993.
Engineering brick abutments with stone dressings, riveted
steel, braced arch girders and cast-iron balustrades. Single
25m span wide segmental arch with lattice-work braces to
series of 7 parallel arched girders. Ornate cast-iron
balustrade over arch. Large brick abutments remaining from
earlier bridge with parapets, the south abutments with
rusticated segmental arch tunnel. Cast-iron lamp standard on
parapets and balustrades.
HISTORICAL NOTE: de Normanville was Borough Engineer and
Surveyor of Leamington from 1882-1917. He engineered the River
Leam, building 3 of its bridges, remodelled the Pump Rooms,
Parade (qv) and designed its Swimming Bath, and laid out
Victoria Park, Mill Gardens and York Promenade.
(Storrie J: William de Normanville. Engineer, Architect and
Inventor: Leamington Spa: 34-40).
Listing NGR: SP3146765675
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481462
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Storrie, J, William Louis de Normanville Engineer Architect and Inventor, (), 34-40
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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