Description

In the entry for:-

ACTON
CHESTER ROAD
SJ 65 SW
4/95 Nantwich Aqueduct
II

The entry shall be amended to read:-
SJ 65 SW CHESTER ROAD
4/95 Nantwich Aqueduct
II*

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The following building shall be added:

ACTON CHESTER ROAD
SJ 65 SW
Nantwich Aqueduct
4/95
II

Aqueduct carrying the main line of the Shropshire Union Canal over the Chester to
Nantwich Road. Circa 1826 (consultant T. Telford). Stone dressed brick abutements
with cast-iron trough. Cast iron segmental arch with ribbed soffit. Triangular
sunken panels to spandrels with five flange-bolted panels at trough level. The
bridge arch sits on moulded stone imposts which return across the faces of stone
pilasters which flank the carriageway opening. The pilasters continue upwards to
become square piers with four-way weathered caps above a projecting band at parapet
level. The piers support the cast-iron balustrade over the highway and on top of
the curved embankment retaining walls. The impost continues as a string course
across the embankment wall and the pier base bands become the coping. The curved,
horizontal sections of the embankment wall terminate as pilasters and piers similar
to those which flank the carriageway opening.

Listing NGR: SJ6420352578

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Nantwich Aqueduct at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17565049

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)