Stirling, Causewayhead Road, New Bridge View from SW showing SSE front
SC 573323
Description Stirling, Causewayhead Road, New Bridge View from SW showing SSE front
Date 1981
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 573323
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content New Bridge, Stirling (Stirling council area) This bridge was built to designs by Robert Stevenson to provide a better coach road from Stirling to the north than that afforded by the 15th/16th century Old Bridge with its pronounced hump. The old bridge was retained for local traffic. This view shows the New Bridge from the south east. Note that it is built with 'rock-faced' ashlar, masonry in which the outer face of the stone is left unpolished. Note also that the courses above the arch rings are arranged radially. This bridge still carries heavy local traffic, though bypassed for main road traffic in the 1970s and 80s. Its predecessor. Just upstream, was consolidated c1911, and is now maintained as an ancient monument, by Historic Scotland. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H81/1/14
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