Smithy Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1985. Bridge.

Smithy Bridge

WRENN ID
sombre-rafter-pigeon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Barnsley
Country
England
Date first listed
18 April 1985
Type
Bridge
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SE40SW 6/51

WOMBWELL SMITHY BRIDGE LANE Smithy Bridge

II

Bridge. c1800. Coursed, squared sandstone, tooled-ashlar voussoirs. Single span. Rusticated elliptical arch with band-rusticated ashlar soffit. Swept batter to flanking abutment walls which also curve in alignment with approach roads. Projecting end-piers linked by cambered band beneath parapet wall. Weathered copings, some replaced by concrete. Crosses the Elsecar branch of the Dearne and Dove Canal constructed following an act of 1793 and opened in 1804 but now largely infilled. Charles Hadfield, The Canals of Yorkshire and North-East England, vol2, 1973, pp280-290.

Listing NGR: SE4001401246

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