Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29/08/2012

SP 7448
13/163
01/12/51

STOKE BRUERNE
GRAND UNION CANAL
Bridge No.53

(Formerly listed as Bridge over the canal (crossing east to west)

GV
II

Bridge. Late C18, doubled 1835. Coursed squared limestone, with red brick arches
and brick parapet to east half; Double-span bridge with elliptical
arches. That to older, west half has narrower span and is somewhat lower. Wide
at the ends, the bridge narrows and then curves outwards again at the centre,
the two halves meeting in the form of a cutwater. String course at base of
parapet which dips at the centre. Channel under west span is not in use.
(K. Falconer: Guide to England's Industrial Heritage: 1980, p170)

Listing NGR: SP7437749828

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26484689

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey