List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: HORKSTOW SUSPENSION BRIDGE
List Entry Number: 1214853
Location
HORKSTOW SUSPENSION BRIDGE, BRIDGE LANE
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: North Lincolnshire
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Horkstow
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II*
Date first listed: 25-Sep-1979
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 165839
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List Entry Description
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History
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Details
HUMBERSIDE
GLANFORD
5264
SE 91 NE HORKSTOW BRIDGE LANE
(west end)
7/39 Horkstow Suspension
Bridge
25.9.79
GV II*
Suspension bridge. 1834-5 by Sir John Rennie, engineer; Messrs John and
Edward Walker of Gospel Oak Ironworks, Tipton, Staffordshire, ironfounders,
for the Commissioners of the Ancholme Drainage and Navigation. Wrought iron
bridge with cast iron fittings, timber decking and rusticated ashlar
structural masonry with smooth-faced ashlar dressings. Overall length
70.75 metres (232 ft), span of chains 40.75 metres (133 ft 9 ins). Ashlar
suspension towers built into the sloping riverbanks; each has plinths and
tapering pilastered piers flanking a recessed keyed elliptical arch with a
moulded cornice and blocking course above. Rectangular chain ancorage
blocks at each side have plinths and caps. Two main chains of composite
bolted wrought iron links to each side, with vertical suspension rods from
each link supporting transverse timber bearers for the plank deck. Later
railings of 3 iron or steel strips clamped to suspension rods. A well-
preserved and elegantly designed example of an early suspension bridge, the
only known example by Sir John Rennie and one of the earliest unaltered
suspension bridges in the country. M J T Lewis, 'Horkstow Bridge',
Lincolnshire Industrial Archaeology, Vol 8, no 1, 1973, 2-9.
Listing NGR: SE9735618998
Selected Sources
Books and journals'Lincolnshire Industrial Archaeology' in Lincolnshire Industrial Archaeology, , Vol. 8, (1973), 2-9
Map
National Grid Reference: SE 97356 18998
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