Southern Railway Viaduct and Colonnade

SOUTHERN RAILWAY VIADUCT AND COLONNADE, NEW BAILEY STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1386162
Date first listed:
18-Jan-1980
List Entry Name:
Southern Railway Viaduct and Colonnade
Statutory Address:
SOUTHERN RAILWAY VIADUCT AND COLONNADE, NEW BAILEY STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1386162
Date first listed:
18-Jan-1980
Date of most recent amendment:
20-Oct-1998
List Entry Name:
Southern Railway Viaduct and Colonnade
Statutory Address 1:
SOUTHERN RAILWAY VIADUCT AND COLONNADE, NEW BAILEY STREET

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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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SOUTHERN RAILWAY VIADUCT AND COLONNADE, NEW BAILEY STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Salford (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SJ 83211 98497

Details

SALFORD

SJ8398SW NEW BAILEY STREET 949-1/24/88 Southern Railway Viaduct and 18/01/80 Colonnade (Formerly Listed as: British Rail Colonnade and Railway Viaduct over New Bailey Street) (Formerly Listed as: NEW BAILEY STREET Southern railway viaduct over the street)

GV II*

Railway viaduct. 1844. By Sir John Hawkshaw, engineer, for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Cast-iron columns support I-section girders and cast-iron parapet. Massive cast-iron columns have Egyptian lotus flower capitals. The parapet, plain for most of the length of the colonnade, is enriched in the section forming bridge over New Bailey Street: divided by fluted pilasters with acanthus capitals and frieze. (Biddle G and Nock OS: The Railway Heritage of Britain: London: 1983-: 101).

Listing NGR: SJ8310698418

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
471586
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Biddle, , Nock, , The Railway Heritage of Britain, (1983), 101

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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