Latitude: 54.0545 / 54°3'16"N
Longitude: -2.7965 / 2°47'47"W
OS Eastings: 347956
OS Northings: 462355
OS Grid: SD479623
Mapcode National: GBR 8PXK.CB
Mapcode Global: WH847.0CM2
Plus Code: 9C6V3633+RC
Entry Name: Skerton Bridge
Listing Date: 18 February 1970
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1212253
English Heritage Legacy ID: 383253
ID on this website: 101212253
Location: Bulk, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1
County: Lancashire
District: Lancaster
Electoral Ward/Division: Skerton East
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Lancaster
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Lancaster St Mary with St John and St Anne
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
Tagged with: Arch bridge Road bridge
LANCASTER
SD4762 PARLIAMENT STREET 1685-1/3/220 (North side (off)) 18/02/70 Skerton Bridge
II*
Public road bridge over River Lune. Completed 1788, altered c1849. By Thomas Harrison (Architect), Messrs Mesham (Builders), and Edward Exley (Carpenter). Sandstone ashlar. 5 gracefully shallow semi-elliptical arches with archbands, and above the semicircular cutwaters between them are aediculed niches with mutuled pediments and engaged Tuscan columns. The whole is crossed by a cornice with mutules, and a balustraded parapet in which plain panels alternate with groups of 6 balusters. The ramped approach at the east end was altered to make a passage for the 'Little' North-western Railway, opened in 1849.
Listing NGR: SD4795662355
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