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© Dr Alan Rosevear
IoE Number:
39757
Location:
KENNET AND AVON CANAL, WIRE BRIDGE AND WIRE LOCK AT SU 363681,
KINTBURY, WEST BERKSHIRE, BERKSHIRE
Photographer:
Dr Alan Rosevear
Date Photographed:
21 November 2001
Date listed:
06 December 1990
Date of last amendment:
06 December 1990
Grade
II
The Images of England website consists of images of listed buildings based on the statutory list as it was in 2001 and does not incorporate subsequent amendments to the list. For the statutory list and information on the current listed status of individual buildings please go to The National Heritage List for England.
The following structures shall be added to the list:
SU 36 NE KINTBURY KENNET & AVON CANAL
12/41 Wire bridge and wire lock
at SU 363681
II
Accommodation bridge and integral lock. Late C18, C20 alterations. Brick bridge
with single elliptical arch, band, solid parapet and piers, with brick and stone
coping. Integral brick lock walls to W. Lock has brick chamber with cement rendered
brick coping. Stone quoins to gate recesses. 2 sets of double wooden gates; top
gates with mechanical ground paddle gearing, bottom gates with hydraulic gate paddle
gearing. The Kennet & Avon Canal was constructed between 1794-1810. John Rennie
was principal engineer.