Railway Bridge
RAILWAY BRIDGE, SPA ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385932
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Railway Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- RAILWAY BRIDGE, SPA ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-09-26
- Reference:
- IOE01/05704/18
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385932
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Railway Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAILWAY BRIDGE, SPA 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:
- RAILWAY BRIDGE, SPA ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Southwark (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 34144 79241
Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3479 SPA ROAD 636-1/6/717 Railway Bridge 03/07/79
II
Railway bridge. 1836. By Colonel Landmann, engineer. For the London and Greenwich Railway. Brick semicircular arch carried on rows of 14 cast-iron Doric columns which separate the carriageway from narrower arched footways on either side. The whole now incorporated in a much larger railway bridge. Of interest as one of the 2 surviving bridges from London's first railway line, the London and Greenwich, opened as far as Deptford in 1836 (see also Abbey Street (qv)). Spa Road to Deptford was opened 8 February 1836, so this railway bridge was the first to be built in London, and the oldest that remains operational.
Listing NGR: TQ3414479241
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471352
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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