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Coventry Canal Tame Aqueduct with Attached Pill Box

A Grade II Listed Building in Tamworth, Staffordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.6174 / 52°37'2"N

Longitude: -1.6914 / 1°41'29"W

OS Eastings: 420988

OS Northings: 302225

OS Grid: SK209022

Mapcode National: GBR 4FL.Z1Y

Mapcode Global: WHCH3.ZGQS

Plus Code: 9C4WJ885+XC

Entry Name: Coventry Canal Tame Aqueduct with Attached Pill Box

Listing Date: 28 February 1992

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1197050

English Heritage Legacy ID: 386481

ID on this website: 101197050

Location: Fazeley, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B78

County: Staffordshire

District: Tamworth

Electoral Ward/Division: Trinity

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Tamworth

Traditional County: Warwickshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Staffordshire

Church of England Parish: Wilnecote Holy Trinity

Church of England Diocese: Lichfield

Tagged with: Navigable aqueduct

Description


TAMWORTH

SK20SW COVENTRY CANAL, Fazeley 670-1/4/28 Tame Aqueduct with attached Pill Box

II

Aqueduct over River Tame. 1785-90 with 1940 pillbox. Thomas Sheasby, engineer, advised by T.Dadford and R.Whitworth. Brick with ashlar dressings, plastered to north side. 3 segmental arches with ashlar triangular cutwaters and ends swept forward; iron railings to north; brick parapet with rounded brick coping and ashlar-coped piers to south side. To west end of south side a 1940 rectangular pill box with opening to east end and 2 openings to north side. (Canals of the British Isles: C.Hadfield: Canals of the East Midlands: London: 1966-: 23-24; Inland Waterways Histories: S.R.Broadbridge: Birmingham Canal Navigations Vol I: 1768-1846: London: 1974-: 41-45).

Listing NGR: SK2098802225

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