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Newcomen Bridge and 1st Lock — North Strand Road

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Newcomen Bridge and 1st Lock — North Strand Road
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Single-arch bridge over canal, dated 1793. Reconstructed, 1873. Part snecked coursed cut-granite walls centred on inscribed cut-Portland stone oval date stones ("1793") with cut-granite saddleback coping to parapets. Pair of pointed-arch underpasses framing single segmental arch with ogee-detailed granite ashlar archivolt centred on vermiculated cut-granite keystone. Sited spanning Royal Canal with snecked calp limestone retaining walls to lock having cut-limestone rounded coping supporting timber boarded double gates.

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