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
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1972
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- ST 757 644
- Coordinates
- 51.37877, -2.34942
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Canal Bridge adjoining Abbey View Lock is a road bridge built around 1800, designed by engineer John Rennie. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features a single elliptical arch that spans approximately 3.5 meters. The bridge is supported by vertical abutments and has flush voussoirs with a triple keystone on each side, topped by a deep string course. The high parapet has heavy weathered coping and follows the slight downhill slope of the road, while the main arch spandrels are laid in horizontal courses. The parapets are swept at the lower end, and there is an opening with stone bollards on the west side that leads to the towpath, with walling extending to a square pier on the right. The upper side of the bridge is located immediately next to Abbey View Lock. The Kennet and Avon Canal, of which this bridge is a part, was fully opened in 1810.
Local climate
Canal Bridge Adjoining Abbey View Lock receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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