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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.

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