Old Tramway Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Bridge. 1 related planning application.
Old Tramway Bridge
- WRENN ID
- north-porch-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- Bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
SP2054 OLD TRAMWAY WALK 604-1/6/8 (North West side) 25/10/51 Old Tramway Bridge (Formerly Listed as: BANBURY ROAD, Bridgetown Old Tramway Bridge)
GV II
Tramway bridge, now footbridge. 1823 with later parapets. John Rastrick, engineer; for Stratford and Moreton Tramway. Brick with ashlar dressings. 8 elliptical arches, that to south east end a flood arch, with piers on cutwaters to both sides. Ashlar-coped brick parapets. Built to carry a horse tramway from the Stratford Wharf to Moreton-in-Marsh. The tramway, which was originally intended to be extended to London, had a branch to Shipston-on-Stour. It was bought by the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway in 1847 and closed, except for the branch line, in 1881; details of history given on a restored truck (not included) preserved approx. 60m to north of bridge. The bridge is an important element in the landscape around the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. (Fogg N: Stratford-upon-Avon: Portrait of a Town: Chichester: 1986-: 120-4, 156, 167N; Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 416).
Listing NGR: SP2050854798
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