Lower Lock
LOWER LOCK, KENNET AND AVON CANAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1395962
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER LOCK, KENNET AND AVON CANAL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1395962
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER LOCK, KENNET AND AVON CANAL
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 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:
- ST7541464296
Details
KENNET AND AVON CANAL
656-1/0/0
Lower Lock
11/08/72
GV II
Canal lock. c1800, restored c1971. John Rennie, engineer. Brick-lined basin with heavy sandstone flush rounded coping, at upper end walls are flared out, and at lower end they continue in ashlar, carried through part of adjacent bridge (qv). Two pairs of wooden gates, with cast iron gear at upper end. The Kennet and Avon Canal Act received royal assent in 1794, and 120 shares were issued. John Rennie was appointed engineer-in-charge, and estimate of £36,000 for wide canal accepted in July of same year. Work was started at Newbury and Bradford-on-Avon, delay in completing staircase of locks at Devizes retarded completion until late December 1810, and first boat passed through later that month.
SOURCE: K.R. Clew, The Kennet & Avon Canal (Newton Abbot 1968).
Listing NGR: ST7541464296
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 511371
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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