Victoria Bridge
VICTORIA BRIDGE, VICTORIA BRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1395490
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- VICTORIA BRIDGE, VICTORIA BRIDGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1395490
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- VICTORIA BRIDGE, VICTORIA BRIDGE 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:
- VICTORIA BRIDGE, VICTORIA BRIDGE 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:
- ST 74121 65008
Details
VICTORIA BRIDGE ROAD 656-1/29/2483 Victoria Bridge 11/08/72 II*
Suspension bridge. 1836. By James Dredge, engineer. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar and wrought iron. EXTERIOR: Single span suspension bridge with plain classical ashlar arches on either bank, attached pylons on each side of segmental arch, plain blocking course and pedimented entablature. Treatment same on both faces. Arches carry suspension chains made up of seven flat wrought iron links rivetted together at intervals. Suspension rods tensioned at different angles, and are Dredge's Patent (see cast iron plaque on bridge, which reads `DREDGE PATENTEE BATH'). Deck made of wrought iron girders and carries wooden roadway been tarmacked and flanked by iron safety railings. HISTORY: The bridge employs a suspension system first used by Captain Brown on the Union Bridge near Berwick-upon-Tweed, which dates from 1820. `The load on the suspension cables was balanced evenly by arranging them at increasingly acute angles to the main catenary cables as they approached the centre of the bridge' (Buchanan). This bridge is now used only for foot traffic, but nonetheless remains an important survivor (in largely unaltered condition) among early suspension bridges. The bridge was completed in December 1836, but named for accession of Queen Victoria in 1837. Dredge, a local engineer, had submitted a comparable design to the Clifton Suspension Bridge competition, won by Brunel. It was repaired in the 1940's. The bridge, an impressive example of Neo-classical masonry as well as of innovative iron technology, is also a monument to the heavy engineering, which was associated with West Bath from the early C19. SOURCES: R.A. Buchanan, `The Industrial Archaeology of Bath' (Bath 1969), 10.
Listing NGR: ST7412165008
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510895
- 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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