Bridge Adjoining Lower 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.
Bridge Adjoining Lower Lock
- WRENN ID
- sombre-column-fen
- 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
Bridge adjoining Lower Lock 11/08/72
GV II
Accommodation bridge. c1800. John Rennie, engineer. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar. PLAN: Single skewed elliptical arch on vertical abutments, which are continuous with the walls of Lower Lock (qv), and on the west side splay out to the junction with the river. EXTERIOR: Flush voussoirs have triple keystone, under plain band, with parapet to heavy weathered coping. West side, at confluence of the canal with River Avon, bridge stops to square pier to battered base, right, and to left has coping swept up to square capped pier, with return walling to swept down coping and to stopped end. East side detail similar, but swept coping stops to plain square capped pier to right and left. Parapets and roadway are splayed out at northern end. The Kennet and Avon Canal opened in 1810. SOURCES: (Pound C: Genius of Bath-The City and its Landscape: Bath: 1986-; Bath Archaeological Trust/RCHM England: Georgian Bath Historical Map: Southampton: 1989-).
Listing NGR: ST7539264300
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