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© Mr F. Bryan Basketter LRPS
IoE Number:
471543
Location:
RAILWAY VIADUCT AND RETAINING WALLS AT JUNCTION WITH GREENGATE, CHAPEL STREET
SALFORD, SALFORD, GREATER MANCHESTER
Photographer:
Mr F. Bryan Basketter LRPS
Date Photographed:
25 September 1999
Date listed:
20 October 1998
Date of last amendment:
20 October 1998
Grade
II
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SALFORD
SJ8398NE CHAPEL STREET
949-1/21/45 Railway viaduct and retaining walls
at junction with Greengate
II
2 railway bridges and linking retaining wall forming bridge
abutments. c1840. Ashlar and cast-iron. Raking retaining wall
divided by rusticated piers into bays with archways with
stressed voussoirs on Chapel Street and return to Greengate.
Above cornice the piers also divide the plain parapet. Low
relief carved coat of arms of the City of Salford over archway
on Greengate return. The wall carries railway viaduct and
links 2 bridges, over Greengate and Chapel Street, for which
it forms the abutments. Bridge decks carried on transverse
iron beams, with cast-iron parapets, solid panels with simple
moulded decoration over Greengate, traceried openwork over
Chapel Street.