Canal Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1975. Bridge.
Canal Bridge
- WRENN ID
- keen-stair-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1975
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Canal Bridge, Bathwick Hill
- OS grid reference
- ST 758 649
- Coordinates
- 51.38277, -2.34882
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Canal Bridge is a road bridge over the Kennet and Avon Canal, located on a sloping site and built around 1810, likely designed by John Pinch the Elder. It is constructed from limestone ashlar. The bridge features a slight concave curve on each side, with substantial walls that rise from the bank, leading to a semi-elliptical arch at the center, which is topped with a keystone. The level parapets have moulded coping, double weathered plinths, and a lower platband on the outer sides. There are six panels of pierced intersecting circles, supported by piers that are wider at the center and ends. At the east end, the lower plinths sink into the hillside. Historically, this bridge was built to span the newly completed canal and connect Bathwick Hill with the rest of the Bathwick Estate, facilitating the development of the hillside. John Pinch, as the estate architect, was responsible for its design. The latticed parapet, which appears to be a later addition, may have been designed by Goodridge around 1840-1850.
Local climate
Canal Bridge 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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