Inveraray Castle Estate, Garden Bridge General view
SC 573665
Description Inveraray Castle Estate, Garden Bridge General view
Date 1981
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 573665
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Garden Bridge, Inveraray Estate, Inveraray, Argyll (Argyll and Bute council area) This large single-span masonry arched bridge was built for the Duke of Argyll to designs by John Adam by David Frew, an Edinburgh Mason. It is an important landscape feature as well as carrying an estate road over the river Aray. This view shows the bridge from the south, with the hill of Dunyquaich in the background. Note the semi-elliptical arch, an unusual feature, and the extension of the alignment of the arch stones up to parapet level, also unusual. This bridge has passages through each abutment, which contain paired arched alcoves with stone seats. The unusual treatment of the masonry relates to that in a bridge on a military road to Fort George, which John Adam would have known. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H81/25/9
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