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Latitude: 53.1855 / 53°11'7"N
Longitude: -2.8886 / 2°53'18"W
OS Eastings: 340717
OS Northings: 365745
OS Grid: SJ407657
Mapcode National: GBR 7B.36TY
Mapcode Global: WH88F.L6P8
Plus Code: 9C5V54P6+5H
Entry Name: Old Dee Bridge
Listing Date: 28 July 1955
Last Amended: 23 July 1998
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375850
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469829
ID on this website: 101375850
Location: Handbridge, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH4
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Electoral Ward/Division: Handbridge Park
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Chester
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Chester St Mary without the Walls
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Road bridge
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4065 HANDBRIDGE
1932-1/8/165 Old Dee Bridge
28/07/55
(Formerly Listed as:
Old Dee Bridge)
GV I
Road bridge over River Dee. Late C14, altered 1826. Red
sandstone. 7 arches, from north to south: a pair of segmental
arches north of diagonal weir; serving leat to former Mills of
Dee then by hydro-electric power station; cutwater at weir,
then plain abutment to first, parabolic, river arch; cutwater;
pointed arch with moulded arris; cutwater; narrower arch with
moulded arris; cutwater; broad segmental arch with moulded
arris; bottom stage forming rectangular projection upstream
for former gate-tower; large cutwater; narrow segmental arch
probably in place of former drawbridge. The bridge was
widened, upstream, in 1826, to provide a footway, partly
corbelled.
The present bridge replaced earlier medieval bridges, probably
of timber, and is believed to stand on the site of a Roman
bridge.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Hubbard E: Cheshire:
Harmondsworth: 1971-: 157-8; Bartholomew City Guides: Harris
B: Chester: Edinburgh: 1979-: 136).
Listing NGR: SJ4071765745
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