SCRCA List Entry Extract for LEN 1383817

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https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1383817

SCRCA Structure: List Entry details (Excluding the 'Description' field)
List Entry Name
ARTENGILL VIADUCT
List entry Number (LEN)
1383817
List Entry Location
ARTENGILL VIADUCT
List Entry County
Cumbria
List Entry District
South Lakeland
List Entry Parish
Dent
List Entry National Park
YDNP
SCRCA Structure: List Entry details: 'Description' field

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History

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Details

DENT

SD78NE DENTDALE 162-1/12/15 (North side) Artengill Viaduct

GV II

Railway viaduct carrying Settle to Carlisle railway line over Artengill Beck. c1869-75, for the Midland Railway Company; Chief Engineer John Crossley, resident engineer J.Underwood. Rock-faced sandstone in massive blocks, with brick soffits to the arches. Straight line on almost north-south axis. Eleven round-headed arches on battered rectangular piers, those to north and south of the 7th, 8th and 9th (which span the deepest part of the valley) broader than the others and with tapered pilasters; short cavetto-moulded imposts at the springing of the arches, rusticated voussoirs, a moulded string course and parapets with rounded coping. Matches Dent Head Viaduct (qv) approx. 1200m to south. A striking feature of the landscape.

Listing NGR: SD7761785903

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National Grid Reference: SD 77617 85903