Cheswardine Road Bridge (Bridge Number 56) is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1987. Canal bridge.
Cheswardine Road Bridge (Bridge Number 56)
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-moulding-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1987
- Type
- Canal bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cheswardine Road Bridge, also known as Bridge Number 56, is a canal bridge built around 1830 by engineers Thomas Telford and Alexander Easton. It is constructed from dressed red sandstone with tooled ashlar dressings. The bridge features an elliptical arch made of voussoirs and a raised keystone. It has a flat string course and a parapet that includes square end piers and rounded coping. The abutments are slightly battered and curved. An oval cast-iron number plate is also present.
This section of the canal was part of the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal, which was authorized by an act passed in 1826 and opened in 1835. It was absorbed by the Ellesmere and Chester Canal in 1845 and later became part of the Shropshire Union Canal in 1846.
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