Shropshire Union Canal Bridge number 54 (Westcottmill Bridge) is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1987. Canal bridge.
Shropshire Union Canal Bridge number 54 (Westcottmill Bridge)
- WRENN ID
- rusted-render-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1987
- Type
- Canal bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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SJ 7029-7129 12/18
CHESWARDINE C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL Bridge No 54 (Westcottmill 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. 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. Oval cast-iron 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 1845.
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: SJ7109429080
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