Footbridge Over Junction of Coventry and Oxford Canals is a Grade II listed building in the Nuneaton and Bedworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1988. Footbridge.
Footbridge Over Junction of Coventry and Oxford Canals
- WRENN ID
- woven-forge-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Nuneaton and Bedworth
- Constituency
- Rugby MP: John Slinger (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1988
- Type
- Footbridge
- Address
- Footbridge Over Junction of Coventry and Oxford Canals, Sutton Stop
- OS grid reference
- SP 361 845
- Coordinates
- 52.45771, -1.46936
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Footbridge over the junction of the Coventry and Oxford Canals, dated 1837 and designed by J. Sinclair. It is made of cast iron, with English bond brick abutments featuring rounded stone and blue brick copings. The footway has a segmental arch and is cast in three sections, topped with an X-framed openwork parapet over a basket arch, which includes openwork spandrels. There is a cast inscription that reads: '1837 BRITANNIA FOUNDRY DERBY J. SINCLAIR ENGINEER'. Sinclair served as the engineer for the Coventry Canal Company.
Local climate
Footbridge Over Junction of Coventry and Oxford Canals receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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