Cattybrook Brickpit
Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
Location | South Gloucestershire |
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Grid reference | ST594835 |
Interest | Geological |
Area | 2.2 hectares (5.4 acres) |
Notification | 1989 |
Location map | English Nature |
Cattybrook Brickpit is a 2.2-hectare (5.4-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the village of Almondsbury, South Gloucestershire, notified in 1989. It began as a clay pit and brickworks.[1]
History
The Cattybrook Brick Company was established in 1864.[2] In 1903 Cattybrook also acquired the nearby Shortwood Brickworks.[2] From 1972, they were taken over by the Ibstock Group.[2][3]
The brickworks are located immediately to the North of the Bristol and South Wales Union Railway, then under construction through the Severn Tunnel. By the end of 1883, the tunnel's enormous demand for bricks with which to line the tunnel was taking 100,000 bricks per month from Cattybrook. This was only a small proportion of the tunnel's need though and three other brickworks were supplying the tunnel, 1,200,000 per month in total.[4] After completion of the tunnel, these brickworks and their masons were unemployed, leading to an over-supply of cheap bricks in the area and the first speculative housing developments in the new railway villages such as Rogiet and Pilning.
Notable buildings and structures using Cattybrook bricks
Notable buildings and structures built using Cattybrook bricks include
- Jacobs Wells Baths, a former public baths in Bristol[5]
- Maidenhead Viaduct, a railway bridge across the River Thames in Maidenhead[6]
- Montpelier High School, a girls secondary school in Bristol[7]
- Severn Tunnel, a railway tunnel under the Severn Estuary between England and Wales[4]
- The Granary, a distinctive building in Bristol built in the Bristol Byzantine style[8]
- Merthyr Tydfil Town Hall, a municipal building[9]
References
- ^ "Cattybrook Brickpit" (PDF). English Nature. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 October 2006. Retrieved 9 July 2006.
- ^ a b c Doughty, Martin; Ward, Owen (1975). "Shortwood Brickworks" (PDF). J. Bias. 8. Bristol Industrial Archaeological Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 August 2017. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
- ^ "A brief history of Ibstock Brick…". Archived from the original on 23 April 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
- ^ a b Walker, Thomas A. (2004) [1888]. The Severn Tunnel. Stroud: Nonsuch Publishing. p. 116. ISBN 1-84588-000-5.
- ^ "Hotwells Public Baths". historicengland.org.uk. Archived from the original on 19 January 2022. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
- ^ "Maidenhead Railway Bridge". Graces Guide. Archived from the original on 18 January 2022. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
- ^ "Colston's Girl School". historicengland.org.uk. Archived from the original on 13 January 2022. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- ^ "The Granary and attached area walls". historicengland.org.uk. Archived from the original on 8 January 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
- ^ "Heritage Plaques - Structures" (PDF). Merthyr Tydfil Heritage Regeneration Trust. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 January 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
51°32′56″N 2°35′13″W / 51.54892°N 2.58691°W / 51.54892; -2.58691
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