Shropshire Union Canal Bridge Number 52 (Fox Bridge) is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1987. Bridge.
Shropshire Union Canal Bridge Number 52 (Fox Bridge)
- WRENN ID
- quiet-cloister-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1987
- Type
- Bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CHESWARDINE C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION SJ 72 NW CANAL 8/15 Bridge No 52 (Fox Bridge)
- II
Canal bridge. Circa 1830. Thomas Telford and Alexander Easton, engineers. Dressed red sandstone with tooled ashlar dressings. Elliptical arch with voussoirs and flush keystone. Decidedly humped-back shape with flat string course and parapet with square end piers and rounded coping. Slightly battered and curved abutments. Cast-iron corner posts on towpatch side with grooves formed by rope haulage. C20 oval number plate. This stretch of canal was built as part of the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal (act passed 1826, opened 1835), which was absorbed by the Ellesmere and Chester Canal in 1845 and eventually became part of the Shropshire Union in 1846. Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands, pp. 183-9; Thomas Pellow and Paul Bowen, The Shroppie. A portrait of the Shropshire Union Canal.
Listing NGR: SJ7166428216
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