ABBEY VIEW LOCK

ABBEY VIEW LOCK, KENNET AND AVON CANAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395943
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:: ABBEY VIEW LOCK
Statutory Address:: ABBEY VIEW LOCK, KENNET AND AVON CANAL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395943
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: ABBEY VIEW LOCK
Statutory Address 1:: ABBEY VIEW LOCK, KENNET AND AVON CANAL

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:: ABBEY VIEW LOCK, KENNET AND AVON CANAL

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 75793 64487

Details

KENNET and AVON CANAL 656-1/0/0 Abbey View Lock 11/08/72

GV II

Canal lock. c1800, restored 1971. John Rennie, engineer. Brick-lined basin with top two courses in stone, to heavy rounded flush coping. Two pairs of timber gates, cast iron winch gear at upper end. At upper end lock walls are splayed out for approx 8m, and at lower end they continue to and through adjacent bridge (qv). The Kennet and Avon Canal opened throughout in 1810. SOURCES: (Civil Engineering Heritage: Sievewright WJ: Wales and Western England: London: 1986-: 27).

Listing NGR: ST7579364487

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

Legacy System number:: 511352
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.