Spiggots Bridge (Bridge no 80)

Coed-y-Rae Lane, Maesbury Marsh, Oswestry, SY10 8JG

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Overview

Bridge crossing the Montgomery Canal, around 1796. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1470407
Date first listed:: 09-Jul-2020
List Entry Name:: Spiggots Bridge (Bridge no 80)
Statutory Address:: Coed-y-Rae Lane, Maesbury Marsh, Oswestry, SY10 8JG

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1470407
Date first listed:: 09-Jul-2020
List Entry Name:: Spiggots Bridge (Bridge no 80)
Statutory Address 1:: Coed-y-Rae Lane, Maesbury Marsh, Oswestry, SY10 8JG

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:: Coed-y-Rae Lane, Maesbury Marsh, Oswestry, SY10 8JG

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Oswestry Rural
National Grid Reference:: SJ3099424943

Summary

Bridge crossing the Montgomery Canal, around 1796.

Reasons for Designation

Spiggots Bridge (Bridge no 80) is listed at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: Architectural interest:

* dating from the 1790s, a period of pioneering canal building, and for which there is a presumption in favour of listing structures which retain a significant proportion of their historic fabric; * a robust and well-constructed brick bridge which is largely unaltered and exemplifies the architectural character of the canal.

Historic interest:

* as part of the infrastructure of the Ellesmere Canal, constructed in the 1790s.

Group value:

* with the other listed structures along the canal.

History

Spiggots Bridge crosses the Llanmynech branch of the former Ellesmere Canal.

The Ellesmere Canal was first proposed in 1791, and was intended to link the mineral extraction industries of North Wales with Liverpool via Ellesmere Port, and the Midlands via Shrewsbury. The route was initially surveyed by John Duncombe (d.1810), with subsequent input from William Jessop (1745-1814). The Act for the new canal was passed in 1793, with Jessop and Duncombe, along with Thomas Denson and William Turner forming the original engineering staff. Thomas Telford (1757-1834) was appointed General Agent later that year. Construction was phased, with the northernmost section opened in 1795, with tolls used to fund further construction. The 12-mile Llanmynech branch, on which Spiggots Bridge stands, was opened the following year. Economic viability prevented completion of the route as planned.

A merger in 1813 formed the Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company, and in 1845 a merger with the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal resulted in the formation of the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company. The canal south of Frankton Junction, including the Llanymynech branch, is now known as the Montgomery Canal. The northern section between Chester and Ellesmere Port is considered part of the main line of the Shropshire Union Canal.

Also known as Coed-y-Rae Bridge, and numbered 80, Spiggots Bridge provides vehicle access across the canal.

Details

Bridge crossing the Montgomery Canal, around 1796.

MATERIALS: red brick with stone copings.

PLAN: the bridge is orientated north-south, providing vehicle access across the canal. EXTERIOR: a single segmental-arched bridge with a string course, a brick parapet with dressed coping stones, and corner piers.

Sources

Books and journals
Hadfield, C, The Canals of the West Midlands, (1966)
Skempton, A, A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers. Volume 1: 1500-1830, (2002), 194
Websites
Ellesmere Canal, Grace’s Guide to British Industrial History, accessed 24/04/2020 from https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Ellesmere_Canal
No 80 Spiggots Bridge, Montgomery Canal, HER Number (PRN): 30858, Shropshire HER, accessed 24/04/2020 from https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MSA33721&resourceID=1015

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.