Shropshire Union Canal, Shrewsbury Branch Canal Bridge Approximately 20 Metres To West Of Numbers 1 And 2, Canal Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1985. Canal bridge.

Shropshire Union Canal, Shrewsbury Branch Canal Bridge Approximately 20 Metres To West Of Numbers 1 And 2, Canal Cottages

WRENN ID: leaning-passage-hawk
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Shropshire
Country: England
Date first listed: 17 February 1985
Type: Canal bridge
Source: Historic England listing

Description

SJ 51 SW SJ 5408 1120 3/67

ATCHAM C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL, Shrewsbury Branch Canal bridge approximately 20 metres to west of Nos.1 and 2, Canal Cottages

Canal bridge. Circa 1797. Plum-coloured brick (English bond) with red brick dressings and grey sandstone coping. Segmental arch with projecting brick keystone, string course, and curved parapet has square end piers with pyramidal caps. Included as one of the last surviving unaltered examples of a bridge in this section of the now disused Shrewsbury arm of the Shropshire Union Canal (begun 1793 and opened in 1797). Nos.1 and 2 Canal cottages are not included in this list. Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands, David and Charles (1969), Pp.160-3.

Listing NGR: SJ5408011212

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