CHAPEL LANE BRIDGE (NUMBER 39) LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL CHAPEL LANE BRIDGE (NUMBER 39)

CHAPEL LANE BRIDGE (NUMBER 39), CHAPEL LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1361843
Date first listed:: 18-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL LANE BRIDGE (NUMBER 39) LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL CHAPEL LANE BRIDGE (NUMBER 39)
Statutory Address:: CHAPEL LANE BRIDGE (NUMBER 39), CHAPEL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1361843
Date first listed:: 18-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL LANE BRIDGE (NUMBER 39) LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL CHAPEL LANE BRIDGE (NUMBER 39)
Statutory Address 1:: CHAPEL LANE BRIDGE (NUMBER 39), CHAPEL LANE
Statutory Address 2:: LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL CHAPEL LANE BRIDGE (NUMBER 39)

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CHAPEL LANE BRIDGE (NUMBER 39), CHAPEL LANE
Statutory Address:: LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL CHAPEL LANE BRIDGE (NUMBER 39)

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: West Lancashire (District Authority)
Parish:: Parbold
National Grid Reference:: SD 49853 10231

Details

PARBOLD LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL SD 41 SE 4/73 Chapel Lane Bridge (No 39) - II

Accommodation bridge over Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Probably early 1770s. Coursed sandstone. Single elliptical arch. Band below parapet with coping. The section of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal between Newburgh and Gathurst follows the line of Leigh's Cut, begun by the Douglas Navigation c1753. Work was in progress in 1772, and the canal between Gathurst and Liverpool was opened for traffic in 1774. Hadfield, C., and Biddle, G., The Canals of North West England, 1970, vol I, p73.

Listing NGR: SD4985310231

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 357849
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hadfield, C, Biddle, G, 'The Canals of the British Isles' in The Canals of North West England, , Vol. 1, (1970), 73

Legal

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