Kennet and Avon Canal, Horton Chain Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1987. Road bridge.
Kennet and Avon Canal, Horton Chain Bridge
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-hearth-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1987
- Type
- Road bridge
- Address
- Kennet and Avon Canal, Horton Chain Bridge, Bishops Cannings
- OS grid reference
- SU 053 634
- Coordinates
- 51.36993, -1.92484
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Horton Chain Bridge is a road bridge over the Kennet and Avon Canal, built around 1806-1807. The bridge is constructed of brick with stone copings and has a splayed shape. It features a thirteen-inch bullnosed brick elliptical arch and two brick string courses at the base of the parapet, which has half-round flush copings that end in slight piers. The parapet is slightly raised at the east end. There is stone capping on the revetment of the canal, which forms the towpath. The sluice slots have been renewed in steel.
Local climate
Kennet and Avon Canal, Horton Chain Bridge receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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