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Latitude: 53.8897 / 53°53'23"N
Longitude: -1.6124 / 1°36'44"W
OS Eastings: 425572
OS Northings: 443797
OS Grid: SE255437
Mapcode National: GBR KR5G.QD
Mapcode Global: WHC8Z.6HGD
Plus Code: 9C5WV9QQ+V2
Entry Name: Portal to North Entrance of Bramhope Railway Tunnel at Se 255 438
Listing Date: 7 April 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1253370
English Heritage Legacy ID: 436540
Also known as: Bramhope Tunnel North Portal
North Portal, Bramhope Tunnel
ID on this website: 101253370
Location: Bramhope, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS16
County: Leeds
Civil Parish: Bramhope
Built-Up Area: Bramhope
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Bramhope St Giles
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Tunnel portal
BRAMHOPE
SE 24 SE
LS 16
6/96 Portal to north
- entrance of Bramhope
railway tunnel
at SE 255 438
- II
Portal to north entrance of tunnel on Leeds to Thirsk Railway. 1845 to 1849.
Engineer Thomas Grainger. Rock-faced sandstone. Gothic style, with side
tower and turrets. Horseshoe archway, with bolection-moulded surround and
large figured keystone, machicolated cornice, parapet of plain slabs each
with a square hole, central raised cop framing a cartouche with wheatsheaf,
fleece and fish emblems. To the left a large cylindrical tower of 3 stages
defined by string courses, with round-headed windows in each stage,
machicolated cornice and high embattled parapet with blind cruciform loops.
To the right a smaller octagonal tower on a square base, with similar loops,
and corbelled battlements. Retaining wall continued on each side of these
towers, that on the right with a quadrant terminating in a turret, that on
the left straight and probably similarly terminated (end concealed by
vegetation). Note: memorial to workmen killed during the
construction of this tunnel, in form of a model of it, in churchyard of Otley
Parish Church, Otley.
Listing NGR: SE2557243797
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