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© Mr Geoffrey Carver
IoE Number:
382582
Location:
CAUSEWAY BRIDGE TO END OG MINSTER POOL, BIRD STREET (north east side)
LICHFIELD, LICHFIELD, STAFFORDSHIRE
Photographer:
Mr Geoffrey Carver
Date Photographed:
15 August 1999
Date listed:
05 February 1952
Date of last amendment:
17 June 1994
Grade
II
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LICHFIELD
SK1109NW BIRD STREET
1094-1/4/36 (North East side)
05/02/52 Causeway Bridge to end of Minster
Pool
(Formerly Listed as:
BIRD STREET
The Bridge over Minster Pool)
GV II
Causeway bridge. c1300 and 1816. By Joseph Potter Snr of
Lichfield, County Surveyor. Ashlar and cast-iron. 3 elliptical
arches, the outer ones blind, with pointed cutwaters, roll
moulding and low parapet with iron railings; 4 openwork boxes,
with openwork lamp standards to ends reminiscent of the
railings to the Shire Hall, Stafford (qv). Incorporates the
medieval causeway under the surface. No water to south-west
side. Original causeway bridge carried main London to Chester
road over the junction between the Bishop's Fish Pool
(drained) and Minster Pool.
(Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade M W:
Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.45).