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© Mr D.R. Smith LRPS
IoE Number:
219242
Location:
STEWARD AQUEDUCT (APPROXIMATELY 400 METRES WEST OF SPON LANE SOUTH) BIRMINGHAM CANAL WOLVERHAMPTON LEVEL,
SMETHWICK, SANDWELL, WEST MIDLANDS
Photographer:
Mr D.R. Smith LRPS
Date Photographed:
26 October 1999
Date listed:
30 March 1987
Date of last amendment:
30 March 1987
Grade
II
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SANDWELL MB BIRMINGHAM CANAL
SP 08 NW
Wolverhampton Level, Smethwick
9/38 Steward Aqueduct (approx
30.3.87 400m west of Spon Lane South)
GV II
Aqueduct. Built in 1828 by Thomas Telford to carry the Old Main Line
(Wolverhampton Level), opened in 1769 and re-aligned in 1790, over his
New Main Line, on the Birmingham Level. Brick in English bond with sand-
stone dressings. Two elliptical skew arches with chamfered voussoirs.
Moulded string course dies into rusticated quoins of abutments. Ashlar
capping course carries cast-iron railings with intersecting arched heads.
Buttresses added to central cutwaters at uncertain date.