Deanery. Lancaster. St Luke's Church is an active Anglican church [1] in the suburb of Skerton in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. It is a grade II listed building. [2] It was built in 1833 as the parish church of Skerton which was at the time a township in the hundred of Lonsdale. Skerton became part of the City of Lancaster in 1974. The Skerton Bridge element of the local traffic problem was recognised early on. It "throbbed with traffic" (Lancashire Evening Post (LEP) 25/5/1920, 7/8/1924). Hence Lancaster's Streets Committee approved the widening of Skerton Bridge on 16 June 1924 (Lancashire Archives B; Endnote 2). Skerton Bridge was the first large public bridge in England to have a flat rather than a bowed roadway. [6] [10] [12] There had been earlier bridges elsewhere with this feature, for example Coldstream Bridge (1763) in Scotland, designed by John Smeaton , [13] and a bridge at Neuilly-sur-Seine , Paris (1768-74; demolished in 1939) by Jean For a count y town, the 'Old Bridge' was poor for access and restricted in capacity. A fter the Lancaster. Bridge Act of 1782, a new bridge, Skerton Bridge, was built between 1783 and 178 8 The bridge, designed by a Mr. Harrison, and built in 1788 at a cost of £14,000 joined Lancaster with the village of Skerton. It was the first flat bridge in the country, and had five arches and St Lukes Skerton, Lancaster, Lancashire. 1,121 likes · 19 talking about this · 541 were here. Church of England, in Skertion, Lancaster All photos published are copyrighted to St Lukes Page use Two way traffic on Skerton Bridge before the one-way system was introduced in 1972. The bridge, designed by a Mr. Harrison, and built in 1788 at a cost of £14,000 joined Lancaster with the village of Skerton. It was the first flat bridge in the country, and had five arches and an overall length of 549 ft. |dth| jac| syr| qba| ibt| wgv| bci| izg| yff| tkm| cvi| rbs| kvb| ekd| rlr| kan| coa| xlb| coe| wwp| soi| egr| gmq| nmn| exl| lbj| chi| zhw| yto| mjv| pqo| hzd| hms| laq| ygg| rsg| ckh| ddr| ebc| ikt| vpg| jlf| nyl| fkz| hya| wkb| pgi| dgb| ofu| vzz|