Canal Bridge Adjoining Abbey View Lock is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1972. Bridge.

Canal Bridge Adjoining Abbey View Lock

WRENN ID: solemn-ember-ochre
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Bath and North East Somerset
Country: England
Date first listed: 11 August 1972
Type: Bridge
Source: Historic England listing

Description

KENNET and AVON CANAL 656-1/0/0 Canal Bridge adjoining Abbey View Lock 11/08/72

GV II

Road bridge. c1800. John Rennie, engineer. Ashlar. Single elliptical span approx 3.5m, on vertical abutments, with flush voussoirs and triple keystone each side, under deep string, with high parapet to heavy weathered coping, following slight downhill slope of road, but main arch spandrels are in horizontal courses. Parapets are swept at lower end, and an opening incorporating stone bollards on west side, giving to towpath, with walling continued to square pier to right. Upper side of bridge immediately adjacent to Abbey View Lock, (qv). The Kennet and Avon Canal was opened throughout in 1810. SOURCE: K.R. Clew, The Kennet & Avon Canal (Newton Abbot 1968).

Listing NGR: ST7577764471

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