Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 565219
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/565219
Forth & Clyde Canal Kelvin Aqueduct, Skaethorn Road, 1787, Robert Whitworth
Four heavy masonry arches, each 15m (50ft) long, on buttress piers, resembling cutwaters, though only one in the river. Overall spectacular structure 122m (400ft) long, 23m (70ft) high above bed of the River Kelvin carrying the Canal over the Kelvin valley. Rustic masonry at lower courses, polished ashlar above. Adjoining the river crossing, to the east, is another Whitworth major feature of his western stretch of the Canal, an elegant stairway of five locks and associated oval basins, raising the navigation level nearly 12m (40ft) to reach the Glasgow Branch into Port Dundas. These are among the finest canal features in Britain.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
