Stanley Ferry Aqueduct

SE 32 SE 2/67

NORMANTON, BIRKWOOD ROAD (south side, off), Stanley Ferry Aqueduct (that part in Normanton CP)

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Aqueduct carrying Calder Cut of Aire and Calder Navigation over River Calder. Built 1837-39; designed in 1834 by George Leather jun. of George Leather and Son, of Leeds. Cast iron with stone abutments. Arched suspension construction, with trough designed in Classical style. Two iron girder areas of 155 ft span, with a horizontal tie at the apex, and steel suspension rods to the trough. The trough, 160 ft. long and 24 ft. wide, has on each outer side a continuous colonnade of fluted Doric colonnettes with entablature including triglyphs with guttae and mutules, the lower ends of the arched supporting girders passing through at each end without interrupting the colonnade. The stone abutment on each side is disguised by a pedimented portico in matching style. The trough has been altered by removal of the towpaths to widen the passage, but the iron stick railings have been replaced in replica. The item is believed to be the first iron suspension aqueduct in the world.

Listing NGR: SE3558023028