Gardham Lock and Swing Bridge
POCKLINGTON CANAL, COTTINGWITH, EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393979
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Gardham Lock and Swing Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- POCKLINGTON CANAL, COTTINGWITH, EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393979
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-2010
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Gardham Lock and Swing Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- POCKLINGTON CANAL, COTTINGWITH, EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE
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:
- POCKLINGTON CANAL, COTTINGWITH, EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cottingwith
- National Grid Reference:
- SE7294445323
Summary
Lock with Swing Bridge, c.1818, by George Leather for the Pocklington Canal Company.
Reasons for Designation
* Date: it is a pre-1840 canal structure and forms part of a sequence of listable structures along the length of the canal;
* Historical Associations: the lock was designed by George Leather, a well-known navigation engineer and designer;
* Intactness: the principal brick and stone superstructure of the lock remains intact, with restoration of the lock floor using steel piles and the re-establishment of the lock structure carried out to traditional design.
History
The Pocklington Canal was constructed at the beginning of the C19 to transport mainly agricultural goods from the East Riding to the larger urban centres to the south and west. A Bill was placed before Parliament in 1814 and the canal was designed by George Leather Jnr, an experienced navigation engineer who worked on Goole Docks and the Knottingley and Goole Canal. The canal was opened in 1818, running for 9.5 miles from the River Derwent at East Cottingwith to a mile south of Pocklington. The cost was £32,695, which was actually less than the original estimate.
Coal, lime, fertiliser and industrial goods were carried to Pocklington, and agricultural produce was sent to the West Riding. After 1847, when the canal was sold to the York and North Midland Railway, there was a decline in trade and the last cargo was carried on the canal in 1932. In 1963 ownership passed to British Waterways. It is now navigable as far as Melbourne, and some of the locks have been restored by the Pocklington Canal Amenity Society (formed in 1969), but it is a remainder waterway and there are no plans to restore the canal fully.
Gardham Lock was restored in 1975.
Details
MATERIALS: Red brick with gritstone dressings, with iron swing bridge.
PLAN: The lock chamber has parallel sides, splayed at each end beyond the gates. The original wooden lock floor was removed during restoration and the foundations were replaced with steel piles. Between the gates is a manually operated swing bridge with iron girder substructure and metal handrails. The curved recess for the bridge has stone ridges along the top to provide purchase. The lock gates and manual and hydraulic gearing mechanism have been restored to traditional design.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 506366
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pocklington Canal Amenity Society, , Pocklington Canal, (2008)
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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