Description

The following buildings shall be added to the list

ST 56 SW WINFORD
and 56 NW
5/163 and
6/163
CHURCH ROAD
GV (north side)
Aqueduct to east of the
Church of Ss Mary
and Peter

II

Aqueduct for Bristol water supply. Completed 1851, James Simpson, Engineer.
Wrought iron tube, limestone piers and abutments. A run of c260 m of wrought
iron pipe of ovoid section cl.4m deep and 1 m at its widest carried across a
valley on 14 piers in coursed rock-faced masonry, tapered square, to concrete
padstones carrying rocker bearings for the large pipe. Piers vary in height
to accommodate ground profile, and the central pier is cruciform, with raking
buttresses. At either end a stone revetment wall, crowned with simple
iron-railing, containing reservoir in puddled clay. Very prominent in the
valley to the east of the Church of Ss Mary and Peter (q.v.); the pipeline,
still in use, is part of an 18 km supply line (see also Watery Lane, Winford
and Harptree Combe, East Harptree, Wansdyke D.C.), and probably the oldest
surviving example of such engineering.

Listing NGR: ST4702762696

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26422069

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Recommended Books

• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2