Skerton Bridge is a Grade II* listed building in the local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1970. Bridge.
Skerton Bridge
- WRENN ID
- veiled-brick-fog
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 1970
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Skerton Bridge, Parliament Street, Lancaster
- OS grid reference
- SD 479 623
- Coordinates
- 54.05452, -2.79648
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Skerton Bridge is a public road bridge over the River Lune, completed in 1788 and altered around 1849. It was designed by architect Thomas Harrison, with construction by builders Messrs Mesham and carpenter Edward Exley. The bridge is made of sandstone ashlar and features five gracefully shallow semi-elliptical arches with archbands. Above the semicircular cutwaters between the arches are niches framed by aedicules, which have mutuled pediments and engaged Tuscan columns. The bridge is topped with a cornice adorned with mutules and a balustraded parapet, where plain panels alternate with groups of six balusters. The ramped approach at the east end was modified to create a passage for the 'Little' North-western Railway, which opened in 1849.
Local climate
Skerton Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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