Canal Bridge
CANAL BRIDGE, BATHWICK HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394244
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Canal Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- CANAL BRIDGE, BATHWICK HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394244
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Canal Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- CANAL BRIDGE, BATHWICK HILL
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:
- CANAL BRIDGE, BATHWICK HILL
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 75821 64916
Details
BATHWICK HILL (South side)
Canal Bridge 05/08/75
GV II
Road bridge over the Kennet and Avon Canal on a sloping site. c1810. Probably by John Pinch the Elder. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar. EXTERIOR: Slight concave curve to each side. Substantial walls rise from the bank with a keystone to a semi-elliptical arch to the centre. The level parapets have moulded coping, double weathered plinths and a lower platband to the outer sides. Six panels of pierced intersecting circles are articulated by piers, wider to the centre and ends. From the centre of east end the lower plinths sink into the hillside. HISTORY: This bridge spanned the newly completed canal, and linked Bathwick Hill with the rest of the Bathwick Estate. The construction of this bridge was a pre-requisite for the development of the hillside. Pinch, as estate architect, would have been entrusted with this design. The latticed parapet appears to be later work, and may have been designed by Goodridge around 1840-50.
Listing NGR: ST7582164916
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 509648
- 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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