Llanthony Swing Bridge
LLANTHONY SWING BRIDGE, LLANTHONY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393287
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Llanthony Swing Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- LLANTHONY SWING BRIDGE, LLANTHONY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393287
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Llanthony Swing Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- LLANTHONY SWING BRIDGE, LLANTHONY 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:
- LLANTHONY SWING BRIDGE, LLANTHONY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Gloucester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 82319 18248
Reasons for Designation
Llanthony Swing Bridge was built in 1910, to 1890 designs for Great Western Railway. It represents a good and largely intact example of a railway swing bridge, of a type that are usually listed.
Details
GLOUCESTER
844-1/0/10006 LLANTHONY ROAD 03-FEB-03 Gloucester Docks (Northwest,off) Llanthony Swing Bridge
II Railway swing bridge. Constructed 1910, from 1890 Great Western Railway designs. Plate-girder steel swing bridge that pivoted on drum on south eastern bank and rested on two cylindrical iron-clad piers on north west side of river. The iron-clad piers might be the remains of the earlier 1852-4 Brunel swing bridge that he built for the Gloucester and Dean Forest [later South Wales] Railway. The abutments are of stone and brick and the bridge continues on the north west bank as a causeway on stone and brick piers. There is a later footbridge attached to the north east side. The swing bridge was hydraulically powered from Gloucester Docks. The Dock Branch line served the docks and the bridge was required to allow the passage of ships on the East Channel of the River Severn. The bridge has been fixed and is no longer operable as a swing bridge.
SOURCE: Swindon Record Office: GWR drawing of hydraulic cylinder. September 1890.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 501145
- 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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