Desk Based Assessment
Date 13 July 2017
Event ID 1025000
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1025000
The Govan Graving docks are located on the S bank of the River Clyde opposite the entrance to the Queens Dock (NS56NE 88). Docks No. 1 and No. 2 were built in the 1870s by the Clyde Navigation Trust, the third being added in 1895-7. Dock No. 1, nearest the river, was designed by James Deas and Alex Lister and was the first built between 1869 and 1875. It measures 168m long, 22m wide and 6.9m deep at high tide, which at the time was the deepest in Britain. Built at a time when the Clyde led the world in the building of sophisticated mercantile ships, the Graving Docks were Category A listed in 1987 for their architectural and historic interest in an international context. The associated pump houses, workshops and ancillary buildings have since been demolished, but the docks survive within a much redeveloped and regenerated area of Glasgow.
Information from HES Survey and Recording (AMcC) 13 July 2017.
