RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER DRIVE BETWEEN AVENHAM PARK AND MILLER PARK

RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER DRIVE BETWEEN AVENHAM PARK AND MILLER PARK, AVENHAM PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279844
Date first listed:: 26-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER DRIVE BETWEEN AVENHAM PARK AND MILLER PARK
Statutory Address:: RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER DRIVE BETWEEN AVENHAM PARK AND MILLER PARK, AVENHAM PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279844
Date first listed:: 26-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER DRIVE BETWEEN AVENHAM PARK AND MILLER PARK
Statutory Address 1:: RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER DRIVE BETWEEN AVENHAM PARK AND MILLER PARK, AVENHAM PARK

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER DRIVE BETWEEN AVENHAM PARK AND MILLER PARK, AVENHAM PARK

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County:: Lancashire
District:: Preston (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 53721 28751

Details

PRESTON

SD5328NE AVENHAM PARK 941-1/13/10 (West side) 27/09/79 Railway bridge over drive between Avenham Park and Miller Park

GV II

Railway bridge. c.1846, for Blackburn and Preston Railway Company; resident engineer, Sturges Meek. Sandstone ashlar. Single span, slightly skewed. Classical style. Semi-elliptical arch with rusticated rock-faced voussoirs, rusticated terminal pilasters, plain band, balustraded parapet with shield in centre; soffit of winding rusticated masonry; curved rock-faced abutments. History: bridge carried the former East Lancashire Railway line over drive between parks. Together with arch over riverside walk at south end of railway embankment, (q.v.), this was an integral element of landscaping demanded of the railway company by Preston Corporation which was beginning to create Avenham Park in the mid 1840s.

Listing NGR: SD5372128751

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Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 25 Lancashire,

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.