FOOTBRIDGE ADJOINING TOP LOCK

FOOTBRIDGE ADJOINING TOP LOCK, KENNET AND AVON CANAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395957
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:: FOOTBRIDGE ADJOINING TOP LOCK
Statutory Address:: FOOTBRIDGE ADJOINING TOP LOCK, KENNET AND AVON CANAL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395957
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: FOOTBRIDGE ADJOINING TOP LOCK
Statutory Address 1:: FOOTBRIDGE ADJOINING TOP 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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Location

Statutory Address:: FOOTBRIDGE ADJOINING TOP 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 75808 64640

Details

KENNET and AVON CANAL 656-1/0/0

Footbridge adjoining Top Lock 11/08/72

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Footbridge. c1815. John Rennie, engineer. Manufactured by Stothert of Bath. Coursed limestone rubble pier to the east and ramp to west, cast iron segmental arches with open circles in spandrels diminishing in size toward centre, plain hand rail and vertical railings sweep up from south-west for approx 6m with an extra long/short length over the canal. Cast iron arches are smaller but similar to those of footbridge in Sydney Gardens (qv), which is dated 1800. Inscription plate at the apex of the span reads `STOTHERT BATH'. HISTORY: This was one of the bridges placed across the new canal to link the recent developments along the slopes of Bathwick Hill with the city. The Kennet and Avon Canal, authorised in 1794, opened fully in 1810. SOURCES: Hugh Torrens, The Evolution of a Family Firm. Stothert and Pitt of Bath (1978), 13-14; K.R. Clew, The Kennet & Avon Canal (Newton Abbot 1968).

Listing NGR: ST7580864640

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Legacy System number:: 511366
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.