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Latitude: 51.4612 / 51°27'40"N
Longitude: -2.1192 / 2°7'9"W
OS Eastings: 391815
OS Northings: 173588
OS Grid: ST918735
Mapcode National: GBR 1R5.C1W
Mapcode Global: VH96C.7J0P
Plus Code: 9C3VFV6J+F8
Entry Name: Railway Viaduct
Listing Date: 22 June 1978
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1267956
English Heritage Legacy ID: 462388
Also known as: Chippenham Viaduct
ID on this website: 101267956
Location: Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15
County: Wiltshire
Civil Parish: Chippenham
Built-Up Area: Chippenham
Traditional County: Wiltshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire
Church of England Parish: St Paul, Chippenham with Langley Burrell
Church of England Diocese: Bristol
Tagged with: Railway viaduct
CHIPPENHAM
ST9173NE NEW ROAD
930-1/6/167 (East side)
22/06/78 Railway Viaduct
II*
Railway viaduct. Opened 1841. Mainly by Isambard Kingdom
Brunel, widened later. Limestone ashlar to the north side,
English-bond brick to the south with a stepped ashlar cornice
and parapet to both facades including the piers. Vermiculated
rustication to the plinth.
3 semicircular-arched openings to the original structure; the
north facade has a tall central road arch with a keystone
reaching to the parapet, flanked by lower narrower arches to
the footpath. To the east a thick coped retaining wall to the
embankment ramps up from a square pier at street level to meet
a curved pier at the cornice. A similar pier to the west end
is connected to another later brick arcade of 5 full-height
arches with a lower one to the west making 9 arches in all.
The brick south side is similar but plain. The pier to the
east end curves forward to meet a simlar embankment retaining
wall.
The arches to the west enclose huge vaulted spaces, 2 with
rows of harnessing rings to each side, one with an axial
division of rubblestone.
HISTORY: a lithograph of 1842 shows the north facade as having
a classical cornice, the present one may be later. One of the
notable monuments on Brunel's main line of the Great Western
Railway.
(Chamberlain, Joseph A: Chippenham: Chippenham: 1976-: 3).
Listing NGR: ST9181573588
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