Description

SOUTHWARK

TQ3679SW SURREY DOCKS
636-1/24/882 (North side)
Swing bridge over cutting between
Greenland Dock and Norway Dock

GV II

Formerly known as: Swing bridge spanning South Lock SOUTH
LOCK.
Swing bridge. 1855. Engineer James Walker, built by Walker,
Burges and Cooper. Formerly spanning South Dock entrance lock,
relocated c1987. Wrought-iron plates and angles. Based on
cast-iron precedents but owes its elegant lightness to use of
wrought-iron with countersunk rivet heads, an early surviving
example of riveted ironwork in bridges. Some welded steelwork
discretely added in refurbishment. Original granite kerbs and
paving reinstated at the new site.
This is the second oldest wrought-iron bridge in the London
Docklands.

Listing NGR: TQ3639379249

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26665704

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]