Stamp End Bridge
STAMP END BRIDGE, SPA ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388768
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Stamp End Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- STAMP END BRIDGE, SPA ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388768
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Stamp End Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- STAMP END BRIDGE, SPA ROAD
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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:
- STAMP END BRIDGE, SPA ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- Lincoln (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 98462 71027
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/09/2016
SK 987
1941-1/13/465
LINCOLN,
SPA ROAD,
Stamp End Bridge
II
1848 for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway.
Designed by John Fowler, Chief Engineer to the company, using
William Fairbairn designed box girders; partially
reconstructed in 1903 for the Great Central Railway.
MATERIALS: ashlar stone, wrought iron, steel and blue
engineering brick.
EXTERIOR: Four span bridge over roads and the river Witham,
three side spans totally reconstructed using riveted steel
plate girders in 1903. Main river span of 66'6" supported on
rusticated ashlar piers with girders bearings behind walls of
engineering brick with stone dressings. River span consists of
parallel wrought iron box girders with small cross girders to
carry double track. Span was strengthened in 1903 by addition
of central steel plate girder from which existing
cross-members were supported at mid point by steel hangers.
Span thus remains with all the 1848 ironwork still in place
and carrying trains.
HISTORY: Stamp End Bridge is believed to be the oldest
surviving wrought iron box girder railway bridge in Britain
and possibly in the world. It certainly seems to be the oldest
such bridge in Britain still carrying trains. The development
of the box girder, necessary for the production of long
wrought iron spans was done by William Fairbairn of Manchester
and championed in use by John Fowler. It led to the slightly
later and still extant Torksey bridge which is no longer in
use; to the Robert Stephenson Menai bridge now destroyed and
the Brunel designed Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash.
(Lincoln, Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. 1998: Barton
B.M.J: 'Stamp End Railway Bridge', 55-56).
Listing NGR: SK9846271027
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486229
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Barton, B M J, Lincolnshire History and Archaeology in Stamp End Railway Bridge, (1998), 55-56
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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