Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 578394
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/578394
A substantial three-span masonry arch bridge over the Annan on the B725 road about three miles west of
Ecclefechan. The outer arch spans are 46 ft and the centre arch 65 ft. The masonry work is diagonally droved with recessed arch rings. The cutwaters are pointed.
The bridge, a good example of its type, was built in 1762– 64 by Alexander Lawrie, a stonemason from Newton
Stewart, to replace a boat ferry. Its purpose was presumably to improve inland communication from the port of
Annan at the onset of the Industrial Revolution. There is a similar bridge some three miles downstream at Brydekirk which was proposed in 1778 and completed in 1800.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.