POWICK OLD BRIDGE
POWICK OLD BRIDGE, OLD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1390030
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- POWICK OLD BRIDGE
- Statutory Address:
- POWICK OLD BRIDGE, OLD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1390030
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- POWICK OLD BRIDGE
- Statutory Address 1:
- POWICK OLD BRIDGE, OLD ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- POWICK OLD BRIDGE, OLD 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:
- POWICK OLD BRIDGE, OLD ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- POWICK OLD BRIDGE, OLD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Worcester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO8351252471
Details
This asset was previously listed twice also at List Entry 1349275. That entry was removed from the List on 29 August 2024.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29 August 2024 to remove references to the duplicate list entry, to replace numerals with words and to reformat to current standards. The GIS triangle depiction was moved slightly from SO8352052490 to SO8351252471. Thus placing it on the parish boundary between Powick, Malvern Hills and Worcester non-civil parish area which passes through the building.
WORCESTER
SO85SW
620-1/3/681
OLD ROAD, Lower Wick
Powick Old Bridge
Formerly Listed as: LOWER WICK Powick Old Bridge (that part in the City of Worcester))
22/05/54
GV
I
Bridge over River Teme and Laughern Brook. C16 with later restorations. Sandstone ashlar, part restored in red brick, with pinkish-brown brick and ashlar copings. Five arches, three with skew segmental arches and cutwaters with pedestrian refuges, two round arches. Surmounted by balustrade approximately 1 metre high. Plaque records: POWICK BRIDGE / RIVER TEME / DURING THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS BETWEEN ROYALISTS AND PARLIAMENTARIANS / THE FIRST SKIRMISH ON 23.9.1642 / AND THE LAST MAJOR BATTLE ON 3.9.1651 / TOOK PLACE ON AND NEAR THIS HISTORIC BRIDGE. Now by-passed by bridge of 1837. The two northern-piers of the bridge were destroyed by the Royalists in 1651.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488981
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Victoria History of the County of Worcestershire: Volume IV, (1924), 184
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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