Footbridge Adjoining Top 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. Footbridge.
Footbridge Adjoining Top Lock
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-railing-yarrow
- 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
- Footbridge
- Address
- Footbridge Adjoining Top Lock, BA2 6DH
- OS grid reference
- ST 758 646
- Coordinates
- 51.38029, -2.34899
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The footbridge adjoining Top Lock was built around 1815 by engineer John Rennie and manufactured by Stothert of Bath. It features a coursed limestone rubble pier to the east and a ramp to the west. The bridge has cast iron segmental arches with open circles in the spandrels that decrease in size towards the center. A plain handrail and vertical railings rise from the south-west for approximately 6 meters, with an extra long/short length extending over the canal. The cast iron arches are smaller but similar to those of the footbridge in Sydney Gardens, which dates to 1800. An inscription plate at the apex of the span reads "STOTHERT BATH." This bridge was constructed to connect the new developments along the slopes of Bathwick Hill with the city. The Kennet and Avon Canal, which it spans, was authorized in 1794 and fully opened in 1810.
Local climate
Footbridge Adjoining Top 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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