Macclesfield Canal Canal Road Aqueduct

The Macclesfield Canal Canal Road Aqueduct, built in 1831 by W. Crosley, is a Grade II listed structure that carries the Macclesfield Canal over Canal Road. It features stone abutments with a cast iron trough and a cast iron segmental arch with a ribbed soffit. The spandrels have triangular sunken panels and five flange bolted panels at trough level. The rusticated sandstone abutments have moulded imposts that support plain stone piers with a projecting band. These piers end in panelled sections at parapet level, which have projecting plinths and four-way weathered caps that flank the cast iron balustrade above the highway. Curved embankment retaining walls on either side continue the impost moulding as the plinth cornice and the pier band as the coping.