View from NW showing NW front
SC 739581
Description View from NW showing NW front
Date 6/8/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 739581
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Auld Brig, Ayr, South Ayrshire This shows the bridge from the west. The massive triangular cutwaters and nearly semicircular arches are typical of late medieval bridges in Scotland. Note the steep approach to the bridge from the left, restricting the load a horse could take across the bridge. The bridge was largely rebuilt in 1910, with substantial use of concrete behind the reinstated masonry facing. It is one of only a handful of medieval bridges surviving in south-west Scotland. This bridge was constructed between 1470 and 1525, and was, until the 1780s, the only bridge across the River Ayr in Ayr. When the 'New Bridge' was built public pressure by, among others, Robert Burns, led to the retention of the 'Auld Brig', which is still a valued footbridge. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/40/42
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