Victoria Bridge
VICTORIA BRIDGE, PARADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381442
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- VICTORIA BRIDGE, PARADE
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- 2005-04-07
- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381442
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- VICTORIA BRIDGE, PARADE
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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:
- VICTORIA BRIDGE, PARADE
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 31921 65496
Details
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3165SE PARADE
1208-1/8/294 Victoria Bridge
19/11/53
GV II
Bridge over River Leam. c1807-1810, widened on west 1839-1840
with later repairs, including those of 1984. Designed by H
Couchman Junior, builder; widening by JG Jackson, architect of
Leamington, with Mr Green, builder. Ashlar with concrete
repairs. 3 arches to river with rusticated voussoirs and
cavetto-moulded cornice. Frieze, cornice surmounted by
balustrade with chamfered plinth, vase balusters punctuated by
wide piers, copings. Bridge rises in height towards centre. To
south-west end parapet curves for approximately 1 metre and
abuts Victoria Colonnade (qv). To south-east retaining walls
and parapet, curved on plan, continue for approximately 3
metres. Stone, badly worn, to south-east corner inscribed:
'THIS STONE WAS LAID BY HENRY JEPHSON M.D. ON THE 25TH.
MAY 1840 IN COMMEMORATION OF THE EXTENSION OF THIS BRIDGE
AND IN CELEBRATION OF THE VISIT OF HER MOST GRACIOUS
MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA'.
(Manning JC (Facsimile by Warwickshire County Library 1988):
Glimpses of our Local Past .. Royal Leamington Spa: Royal
Leamington Spa: 1895-; Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its
History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 18, 40).
Listing NGR: SP3192165496
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481804
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Manning, J C, Glimpses of our Local Past... Royal Leamington Spa, (1895)
Cave, L F, Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development, (1988), 18 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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