Ayr, Auld Brig View from WNW showing NW front
SC 570049
Description Ayr, Auld Brig View from WNW showing NW front
Date 1980
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 570049
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Auld Brig, Ayr, Ayrshire This four-span ashlar bridge is the oldest surviving bridge in Ayrshire. It has three semicircular arches and one pointed one, but the latter is probably the result of distortion rather than design. There are the massive triangular cutwaters of the period This view shows the bridge from the west., with the pointed arch at the right side. This part of the river Ayr is tidal, and the bases of the piers are protected by carefully-placed loose stone. The bridge has been a footbridge for many years. This bridge was initially bypassed by a late 18th century bridge, but this, the New Brig of Burns, failed and was replaced by the present New Brig in 1878-9. Proposlas to demolish the Old Brig were opposed, and the bridge extensively repaired in 1910. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H80/8/13
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