Mickla Bridge
MICKLA BRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1396378
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Mickla Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- MICKLA BRIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1396378
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Mickla Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- MICKLA BRIDGE
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:
- MICKLA BRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Forest of Dean (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Alvington
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Forest of Dean (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Woolaston
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 60808 99979
Details
ALVINGTON
SX Mickla Bridge 1686/0/10004 13-DEC-10
II A double clapper bridge, possibly dating from the C17 or C18, and certainly before 1830. The bridge consists of four rectangular local stone slabs, set two-by-two. One of the slabs to the south-western side is inscribed with a benchmark. The bridge is supported on mortared rubble-stone abutments curving below the bridge, and continuing a short distance along the banks of the Cone Brook to either side. The centre of the bridge is carried on a stone-rubble cutwater which tapers to either end.
HISTORY: Mickla Bridge is noted in a secondary source as possibly dating from before the Norman conquest, though without any supporting evidence; the Gloucestershire Sites and Monuments Record states that it is unlikely to be earlier than the C14. The name Mickla derives from Mickley Meadow, which is recorded in an inquisition of 1629. Mickla Bridge across the Cone Brook is mentioned as a footbridge in 1681, and it is certainly in place and named as such on an Ordnance Survey map of 1830.
SOURCES: Gloucestershire SMR Record: detail report for area 5837 (1985) Cross, AGR: Old Industrial Sites in Wyedean: a gazetteer (1982), 83 Elrington, CR and Herbert, NM: A History of the County of Gloucester (Victoria County History) Volume X (1972), 105
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: Mickla Bridge, a pre-C19 double clapper bridge, is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * Historic interest: the bridge is a largely intact structure probably dating from the C17 or C18; a bridge is recorded here from the later C17 * Rarity: one of only six clapper bridges known in the county, and rare in this lowland context
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 509204
- 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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