Bridge Adjoining Lower Lock
BRIDGE ADJOINING LOWER LOCK, KENNET AND AVON CANAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395950
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Adjoining Lower Lock
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE ADJOINING LOWER LOCK, KENNET AND AVON CANAL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395950
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Adjoining Lower Lock
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE ADJOINING LOWER LOCK, KENNET AND AVON CANAL
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:
- BRIDGE ADJOINING LOWER 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 75392 64300
Details
KENNET and AVON CANAL 656-1/0/0
Bridge adjoining Lower Lock 11/08/72
GV II
Accommodation bridge. c1800. John Rennie, engineer. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar. PLAN: Single skewed elliptical arch on vertical abutments, which are continuous with the walls of Lower Lock (qv), and on the west side splay out to the junction with the river. EXTERIOR: Flush voussoirs have triple keystone, under plain band, with parapet to heavy weathered coping. West side, at confluence of the canal with River Avon, bridge stops to square pier to battered base, right, and to left has coping swept up to square capped pier, with return walling to swept down coping and to stopped end. East side detail similar, but swept coping stops to plain square capped pier to right and left. Parapets and roadway are splayed out at northern end. The Kennet and Avon Canal opened in 1810. SOURCES: (Pound C: Genius of Bath-The City and its Landscape: Bath: 1986-; Bath Archaeological Trust/RCHM England: Georgian Bath Historical Map: Southampton: 1989-).
Listing NGR: ST7539264300
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 511359
- 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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