Viaduct Over Weaver Navigation, Number 54 is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1985. A C19 Viaduct.

Viaduct Over Weaver Navigation, Number 54

WRENN ID
stranded-threshold-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Country
England
Date first listed
6 December 1985
Type
Viaduct
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SJ 57 NW SUTTON C. P . CHESTER-WARRINGTON RAILWAY

2/144 Viaduct over Weaver Navigation, No. 54.

GV II

Viaduct, 1848 1850. Alexander Rendel engineer, Thomas Brassey contractor, for Birkenhead, Lancs & Cheshire Junction Railway Co. Brown brick and cast iron. Segmental-arched cast iron span of 25 metres approximately 28 metres above water level of Navigation, with a lower round brick arch to each side surmounted by doubly-recessed rectangular panel. Square abutments. 4 rectangular buttresses on each face. Moulded cornices: moulded stone imposts to central span; moulded copings. A reinforced concrete tract-bed has been inserted above the cast iron arch. A handsome symmetrical viaduct somewhat marred in appearance by the necessary super-imposed reinforced concrete strengthening. See also item 60 (Frodsham CP).

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