Listed Building: South entrance to Crick Tunnel (2/126)

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Grade II
NHLE UID 1343014
Date assigned 11 March 1987
Date last amended

Description

Tunnel entrance. Early C19. James Barnes engineer. Blue and red brick, with stone coping. Arch framed by flat buttresses. Flanking brick walls curve forward slightly ending with similar buttresses. Blocked opening with flat arched brick frame in centre of parapet. Brick string course at base of parapet. The tunnel was opened in 1814 and is 1528 yards long. (A.H. Faulkner, The Grand Junction Canal, 1972, p.188).

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Location

Grid reference Centred SP 5916 7074 (21m by 4m)
Civil Parish CRICK, West Northamptonshire (formerly Daventry District)

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Dec 1 2021 11:20AM

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