OLD PENWORTHAM BRIDGE OVER RIVER RIBBLE (THAT PART IN PRESTON BC)

OLD PENWORTHAM BRIDGE OVER RIVER RIBBLE (THAT PART IN PRESTON BC), BROADGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279848
Date first listed:: 26-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: OLD PENWORTHAM BRIDGE OVER RIVER RIBBLE (THAT PART IN PRESTON BC)
Statutory Address:: OLD PENWORTHAM BRIDGE OVER RIVER RIBBLE (THAT PART IN PRESTON BC), BROADGATE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279848
Date first listed:: 26-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: OLD PENWORTHAM BRIDGE OVER RIVER RIBBLE (THAT PART IN PRESTON BC)
Statutory Address 1:: OLD PENWORTHAM BRIDGE OVER RIVER RIBBLE (THAT PART IN PRESTON BC), BROADGATE

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

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

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:: OLD PENWORTHAM BRIDGE OVER RIVER RIBBLE (THAT PART IN PRESTON BC), BROADGATE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lancashire
District:: Preston (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 53022 28303

Details

PRESTON

SD5328 BROADGATE 941-1/8/32 (South side) 27/09/79 Old Penwortham Bridge over River Ribble (that part in Preston B.C.)

GV II

Bridge over River Ribble (now a footbridge). 1759. Sandstone. Five unequal segmental arches, rising towards the centre; V-shaped cutwaters continued to the parapets to form refuges on both sides of the deck; spandrels of red sandstone; parapets with moulded tops, splayed at north end, and that on the east side linked to matching wall which turns at right-angles along north side of approach ramp from west. History: replaced first bridge on this site (built 1755, collapsed 1756), and until early C20 was lowest bridge over River Ribble, intermittently maintained by tolls. The southern half of the bridge is in Penwortham CP, South Ribble District (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD5302228303

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Legacy System number:: 391909
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.