Victoria Bridge, Sowerby Bridge
Description: Victoria Bridge
Grade: II
Date Listed: 19 July 1988
English Heritage Building ID: 339423
OS Grid Reference: SE0587023390
OS Grid Coordinates: 405870, 423390
Latitude/Longitude: 53.7069, -1.9125
Location: Victoria Road, Sowerby, Halifax, Calderdale HX6 3AJ
Locality: Sowerby Bridge
Local Authority: Calderdale
County: West Yorkshire
Country: England
Postcode: HX6 3AJ
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Listing Text
SOWERBY BRIDGE VICTORIA ROAD
SE 0423-0523
12/287
Victoria Bridge
- II
Road bridge. Dated 1864. Contractors P Berry and Son, Sowerby Bridge. For
Major R Stansfield of Fieldhouse (q.v). Stone and cast iron. 2-span bridge
with central stone pier cut to a triangular face on west side and rounded on
east side. Causeway base has sunk panels with raised pattern. Flanking cause-
way, are square end and central piers with pyramidal caps, the centrel piers
having floral-decorated bases and carrying plaques with the bridge's name,
contractor and patron. Between piers are railings of crossed diagonal, vertical
and horizontal struts with a patera to centre of each cross. The open iron-work
construction was designed to allow flood water to pass through. Sowerby Bridge
Civic Society, Sowerby Bridge Trial, p8.
Listing NGR: SE0587023390
Source: English Heritage
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