Walton Bridge No 104
WALTON BRIDGE NO 104, STAFFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE CANAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393481
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-2009
- List Entry Name:
- Walton Bridge No 104
- Statutory Address:
- WALTON BRIDGE NO 104, STAFFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE CANAL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393481
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-2009
- List Entry Name:
- Walton Bridge No 104
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALTON BRIDGE NO 104, STAFFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE CANAL
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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:
- WALTON BRIDGE NO 104, STAFFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE CANAL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Stafford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Berkswich
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 96202 21666
Reasons for Designation
Walton Bridge (No.104) on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Despite some minor repairs, it is a substantially intact canal structure of the early to mid-C19 * It is of historic interest in the context of both the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal and as part of the national waterways system of the late C18 and early C19
Details
BERKSWICH
603/0/10059 STAFFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE CANAL 15-OCT-09 Walton Bridge No 104
II Canal bridge, No. 104. Early to mid-C19 for the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.
MATERIAL: Random bond brick, copings of sandstone, engineering brick and concrete.
DESCRIPTION: This single span bridge has a wide, shallow elliptical arch spanning the canal and towpath. It has a plain parapet with blue brick coping. Both the west and east faces have oval cast-iron plaques bearing the name and number. The south abutments terminate in stone-coped square piers and there are straight retaining walls at right angles to the north end of the bridge, also terminating in brick piers of square section.
HISTORY: The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal (SWC) was one of the earliest canals, constructed under an Act of 1766 and opened fully for traffic in 1772. Devised by James Brindley, the canal runs for 46½ miles between Great Haywood, where it joins the Trent & Mersey Canal (completed 1777) to Stourport where it connects with the River Severn. The canal forms one of the arms of Brindley's `Grand Cross', a scheme to link the Rivers Trent, Mersey, Thames and Severn, and was the first of the arms to be completed. Documentary and stylistic evidence indicates that Walton Bridge is a later addition to the canal and dates from the early to mid-C19.
SOURCES: Victoria County History, A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 5: East Cuttlestone Hundred (1959) 1-11 J. Ian Langford, Towpath Guide for the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal (1974), 39
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: Walton Bridge (No.104) on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Despite some minor repairs, it is a substantially intact canal structure of the early to mid-C19 * It is of historic interest in the context of both the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal and as part of the national waterways system of the late C18 and early C19
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 507326
- 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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