Grand Union Canal North Entrance To Crick Tunnel is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1987. Tunnel entrance.

Grand Union Canal North Entrance To Crick Tunnel

WRENN ID: hallowed-shingle-cream
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: West Northamptonshire
Country: England
Date first listed: 11 March 1987
Type: Tunnel entrance
Source: Historic England listing

Description

CRICK GRAND UNION CANAL SP5972 12/127 North entrance to Crick tunnel

Tunnel entrance. Early C19. James Barnes engineer. Red brick parapet patched with blue brick and partly rendered, stone coping. The arch is framed by flat pilasters. Flanking walls partly rendered brick, curve forward slightly ending with flat buttresses Blocked opening with rendered lintel in centre of parapet. Brick string course at base of parapet. The tunnel was opened in 1814 and is 1528 yards long. (A.H. Faulkner, The Grand Junction Canal, 1972, p.188).

Listing NGR: SP5947572104

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