Description

SE 32 SE
2/67

NORMANTON,
BIRKWOOD ROAD (south side, off),
Stanley Ferry Aqueduct (that part in Normanton CP)

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Aqueduct carrying Calder Cut of Aire and Calder Navigation over River Calder.
Built 1837-39; designed in 1834 by George Leather jun. of George Leather and
Son, of Leeds. Cast iron with stone abutments. Arched suspension
construction, with trough designed in Classical style. Two iron girder areas
of 155 ft span, with a horizontal tie at the apex, and steel suspension rods
to the trough. The trough, 160 ft. long and 24 ft. wide, has on each outer
side a continuous colonnade of fluted Doric colonnettes with entablature
including triglyphs with guttae and mutules, the lower ends of the arched
supporting girders passing through at each end without interrupting the
colonnade. The stone abutment on each side is disguised by a pedimented
portico in matching style. The trough has been altered by removal of the
towpaths to widen the passage, but the iron stick railings have been replaced
in replica. The item is believed to be the first iron suspension aqueduct in
the world.

Listing NGR: SE3558023028

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Stanley Ferry Aqueduct at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7599594

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)