Description

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SD 6726
796-0/0/10014

LEEDS-LIVERPOOL CANAL
Nova Scotia
Ewood Aqueduct

GV
II
Canal aqueduct over public road. Probably earlier C19. Coursed rock-faced sandstone. Straight tunnel with concave abutments to the embankment forming semi-circular approaches on both sides. Battered and concave facades, each having a semi-circular arch with a keystone and radiating masonry up to the band, rectangular pilasters, a plain band, plain frieze and moulded cornice, and a parapet with flat coping. Ramped concave abutments, all continued in similar masonry for approximately one third of their length, ending with simple pilasters, and then continued in smaller coursed squared masonry; with flat copings. Forms a group with Hollin Bridge (q.v.) to the east; and the west end of a linear group of canal structures centred on Nova Scotia Wharf, Lock No.52 forming the east end of this group.

Listing NGR: SD6761826477

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Ewood Aqueduct at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5419077

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)