View from WNW showing NW front

Description View from WNW showing NW front

Date 11/1/1971

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 772839

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Clydesholm Bridge, South Lanarkshire This shows the bridge from its successor, looking south-east. The near-semicircular arches, triangular cutwaters carried up to form pedestrian refuges, and arches narrower than the spans are all features of medieval bridges which persisted into the early 18th century. This is now the oldest bridge over the River Clyde, and one of the very few Scottish bridges surviving from the 17th century, which does not seem to have been a good period for bridge building, probably on account of the civil and religious unrest characteristic of the period. This bridge was built in 1694-9 over the River Clyde, and carried what was at the time the main route from Glasgow to Carlisle and the south. Its design is typical of it period. It was not by-passed until the 1950s, and is still used by local road traffic. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/71/2/18

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap