BRIDGE OVER RAILWAY

BRIDGE OVER RAILWAY, BECKFORD ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394439
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1975
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE OVER RAILWAY
Statutory Address:: BRIDGE OVER RAILWAY, BECKFORD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394439
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE OVER RAILWAY
Statutory Address 1:: BRIDGE OVER RAILWAY, BECKFORD ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BRIDGE OVER RAILWAY, BECKFORD ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: ST7583865454

Details

BECKFORD ROAD Bridge over railway (Formerly Listed as: BECKFORD ROAD Railway Bridge) 05/08/75

GV II

Road bridge over the former Great Western Railway. c1840 with C20 extensions. By I.K. Brunel. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar and engineering brick. EXTERIOR: The facade to Sydney Gardens is more prestigious with moulded coping to the parapet; a cornice over the arch follows the contours of two doubly stepped-forward ashlar buttresses flanking the arch. The angled semi-elliptical arch has five courses of brick (possibly later), and ashlar facings. The north facade has brick facings. C20 corrugated iron extensions above the parapets. HISTORY: One of a notable sequence of railway bridges leading into Bath, showing the strong influence of contemporary architecture on Brunel¿s overall scheme. This section of the line was opened in June, 1841.

Listing NGR: ST7583865454

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 509839
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.