Nantwich Aqueduct

The Nantwich Aqueduct is an aqueduct that carries the main line of the Shropshire Union Canal over Chester to Nantwich Road. It was built around 1826, with design contributions from the consultant T. Telford. The structure features stone dressed brick abutments and a cast-iron trough. It has a cast iron segmental arch with a ribbed soffit, and the spandrels are adorned with triangular sunken panels and five flange-bolted panels at trough level. The bridge arch rests on moulded stone imposts that extend across the faces of stone pilasters flanking the carriageway opening. These pilasters rise to form square piers topped with four-way weathered caps, situated above a projecting band at parapet level. The piers support a cast-iron balustrade that spans over the highway and atop the curved embankment retaining walls. The impost continues as a string course along the embankment wall, while the pier base bands serve as coping. The curved, horizontal sections of the embankment wall end in pilasters and piers that mirror those flanking the carriageway opening.