Sydney Wharf canal bridge

Heritage listing

Details BATHWICK HILL (South side) Canal Bridge 05/08/75 GV II Road bridge over the Kennet and Avon Canal on a sloping site. c1810. Probably by John Pinch the Elder. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar. EXTERIOR: Slight concave curve to each side. Substantial walls rise from the bank with a keystone to a semi-elliptical arch to the centre. The level parapets have moulded coping, double weathered plinths and a lower platband to the outer sides. Six panels of pierced intersecting circles are articulated by piers, wider to the centre and ends. From the centre of east end the lower plinths sink into the hillside. HISTORY: This bridge spanned the newly completed canal, and linked Bathwick Hill with the rest of the Bathwick Estate. The construction of this bridge was a pre-requisite for the development of the hillside. Pinch, as estate architect, would have been entrusted with this design. The latticed parapet appears to be later work, and may have been designed by Goodridge around 1840-50. Listing NGR: ST7582164916 Legacy The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system. Legacy System number: 509648 Legacy System: LBS

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.