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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
Tagged with: Bridge
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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