Bridge Over Railway in Sydney Gardens
BRIDGE OVER RAILWAY IN SYDNEY GARDENS, SYDNEY GARDENS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1395281
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Over Railway in Sydney Gardens
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE OVER RAILWAY IN SYDNEY GARDENS, SYDNEY GARDENS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1395281
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Over Railway in Sydney Gardens
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE OVER RAILWAY IN SYDNEY GARDENS, SYDNEY GARDENS
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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:
- BRIDGE OVER RAILWAY IN SYDNEY GARDENS, SYDNEY GARDENS
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:
- ST7581465331
Details
SYDNEY GARDENS
656-1/32/1642
Bridge over railway in Sydney Gardens
(Formerly Listed as: SYDNEY GARDENS Railway Bridge)
11/08/72
GV II*
Bridge over railway in Sydney Gardens at approach to Rotunda. c1840. By I.K. Brunel for the Great Western Railway.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar parapet, piers and south face, dark engineering brick north archivolt and many repairs to intrados.
EXTERIOR: Angled semi-elliptical arch across railway, semicircular arch across footpath through west abutment which pierced by three semicircular arches with views from footpath to railway line. Stone parapet has coped parapet, semicircular heads and bases to narrow pierced vertical panels and plinth/cornice over arch. North-west corner of parapet curves down to footpath.
SOURCES: John Froud, 'The Great Western Railway in Bathwick' in 'Beyond Mr Pulteney's Bridge' (Bath Preservation Trust exhib. Cat. 1987), 18-19.
Listing NGR: ST7581465331
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510693
- 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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