Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
19542
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/03/1998
Date of Amendment
20/03/1998
Name of Property
Bridge over channel N of Severn Lodge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Forden with Leighton and Trelystan
Town
Locality
Lower Leighton
Easting
323750
Northing
306935
Street Side
Location
Located approximately 1.1km NW of Leighton church on N side of B4381 and R bank of River Severn.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Later C19 and part of the former Leighton Estate. The channel was cut in order to divert water from the River Severn which was pumped, probably by means of a hydraulic ram, up to the reservoirs on the hillside E of Leighton. John Naylor, a Liverpool banker, had acquired the Leighton Estate in 1846-47 and embarked on an ambitious programme of building, notably Leighton Hall, church and Leighton Farm, all designed by Gee and mostly complete by the mid 1850s. Naylor continued to extend and improve the Estate until his death in 1889, while Naylor’s grandson, Captain J.M. Naylor, sold Leighton Hall and the Estate in 1931. The bridge was associated with Naylor's introduction of new technology at Leighton, specifically his pioneering efforts to recycle manure as fertiliser using pumps and slurry tanks across a large tract of land.
Exterior
Single-span bridge and associated walls over an artificial channel where water was diverted from the River Severn. Hammer-dressed stone with keyed segmental arch. Flat deck with low parapet. On SE side is a return wall which has a small culvert opening and a recessed bay in the bank of the B4381.
Interior
Reason for designation
The Leighton Estate is an exceptional example of high-Victorian estate development. It is remarkable for the scale and ambition of its conception and planning, the consistency of its design, the extent of its survival, and is the most complete example of its type in Wales. The bridge is an important element of this whole ensemble at Leighton, representing the pioneering use of new technology, while its relationship to other features on the Estate such as the Slurry Tank on Moel y Mab demonstrates the scale of civil engineering undertaken at Leighton.
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