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Bridge Adjoining Lower Lock

A Grade II Listed Building in Widcombe, Bath and North East Somerset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.3772 / 51°22'37"N

Longitude: -2.3549 / 2°21'17"W

OS Eastings: 375392

OS Northings: 164300

OS Grid: ST753643

Mapcode National: GBR 0QH.RF7

Mapcode Global: VH96M.4ND2

Plus Code: 9C3V9JGW+V2

Entry Name: Bridge Adjoining Lower Lock

Listing Date: 11 August 1972

Last Amended: 15 October 2010

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1395950

English Heritage Legacy ID: 511359

ID on this website: 101395950

Location: Lyncombe Hill, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, BA2

County: Bath and North East Somerset

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Bath

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset

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Description


KENNET and AVON CANAL
656-1/0/0

Bridge adjoining Lower Lock
11/08/72

GV II

Accommodation bridge. c1800. John Rennie, engineer.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar.
PLAN: Single skewed elliptical arch on vertical abutments, which are continuous with the walls of Lower Lock (qv), and on the west side splay out to the junction with the river.
EXTERIOR: Flush voussoirs have triple keystone, under plain band, with parapet to heavy weathered coping. West side, at confluence of the canal with River Avon, bridge stops to square pier to battered base, right, and to left has coping swept up to square capped pier, with return walling to swept down coping and to stopped end. East side detail similar, but swept coping stops to plain square capped pier to right and left. Parapets and roadway are splayed out at northern end. The Kennet and Avon Canal opened in 1810.
SOURCES: (Pound C: Genius of Bath-The City and its Landscape: Bath: 1986-; Bath Archaeological Trust/RCHM England: Georgian Bath Historical Map: Southampton: 1989-).

Listing NGR: ST7539264300

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